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A007086 Next term is uniquely the sum of 3 earlier terms.
(Formerly M0756)
8
1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 28, 29, 30, 53, 56, 57, 80, 82, 104, 105, 107, 129, 130, 132, 154, 155, 157, 179, 180, 182, 204, 205, 207, 229, 230, 232, 254, 255, 257, 279, 280, 282, 304, 305, 307, 329, 330, 332, 354, 355, 357, 379, 380, 382 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

a(1)=1, a(2)=2, a(3)=3, for n>3, a(n) = least number which is a unique sum of three distinct earlier terms.  Written this way, we see that this is to 3 as Ulam number A002858 is to 2. - Jonathan Vos Post (jvospost3(AT)gmail.com)

REFERENCES

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

M. C. Wunderlich, The improbable behavior of Ulam's summation sequence, pp. 249-257 of A. O. L. Atkin and B. J. Birch, editors, Computers in Number Theory. Academic Press, NY, 1971.

FORMULA

G.f.: (22*x^18 -21*x^17 +x^16 -2*x^13 -7*x^12 -15*x^9 +2*x^8 +2*x^7 -2*x^5 -2*x^4 -x^3 -x^2 -x) / (-x^4+x^3+x-1).  Conjectured and verified for n<=1100 - Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Jan 04 2011

EXAMPLE

13 through 27 are not in the sequence because of nonuniqueness: 1+3+9=1+2+10=13, 1+3+10=2+3+9=14, 1+2+12=2+3+10=15, 1+6+9=2+3+11=16, 1+7+9=2+6+9=17, 3+6+9=1+6+11=18, 1+6+12=2+6+11=19, 1+9+10=2+6+12=20, 1+9+11=2+9+10=21, 1+10+11=2+9+11=22, 2+9+12=3+9+11=23, 1+11+12=3+9+12=24, 3+10+12=6+9+10=25, 3+11+12=6+9+11=26, 6+9+12=6+10+11=27. - Jonathan Vos Post(jvospost3(AT)gmail.com)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002858.

Sequence in context: A140783 A094351 A061910 * A047404 A133555 A032938

Adjacent sequences:  A007083 A007084 A007085 * A007087 A007088 A007089

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com)

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