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A006670 Chromatic number of path with n nodes.
(Formerly M0252)
0
1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

This cannot be the ordinary chromatic number, which is 2 for paths and 2 or 3 for cycles (A006671). Should "edge-distinguishing" be in the title? - Keith Briggs (keith.briggs(AT)bt.com), Feb 22 2006

REFERENCES

K. Al-Wahabi, R. Bari, F. Harary and D. Ullman, The edge-distinguishing chromatic number of paths and cycles, pp. 17-22 of Graph Theory in Memory of G. A. Dirac (Sandbjerg, 1985). Edited by L. D. Andersen et al., Annals of Discrete Mathematics, 41. North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam-New York, 1989.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A005707 A087828 A110867 * A132914 A060646 A103298

Adjacent sequences:  A006667 A006668 A006669 * A006671 A006672 A006673

KEYWORD

nonn,more

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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