The OEIS mourns the passing of Jim Simons and is grateful to the Simons Foundation for its support of research in many branches of science, including the OEIS.
login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A007538 A self-generating sequence: there are a(n) 3's between successive 2's.
(Formerly M0432)
13

%I M0432 #46 Feb 05 2024 11:36:40

%S 2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,

%T 3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,

%U 3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3

%N A self-generating sequence: there are a(n) 3's between successive 2's.

%C (a(n)) is the unique fixed point of the morphism 2->233, 3->2333 (immediate from its definition). - _Michel Dekking_, Feb 21 2017

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

%H Reinhard Zumkeller, <a href="/A007538/b007538.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a>

%H Bryce Emerson Blackham, <a href="https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6735">Subtraction Games: Range and Strict Periodicity</a>, Master's thesis, 2018.

%H The Fifty-Fourth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2974527">Problem A-6</a>, Amer. Math. Monthly, 101 (1994), 727-728.

%H The Fifty-Fourth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2690693">Problem A-6</a>, Math. Mag., 67 (No. 2, 1994), 157-158.

%F a(n) = floor( n*(1+sqrt(3)) ) - floor( (n-1)*(1+sqrt(3)) ).

%F a(n) = f(n,2,2,2) with f(n,b,c,i) = if n=1 then b else (if c=0 then f(n-1,2,a(i),i+1) else f(n-1,3,c-1,i)). - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, May 25 2009

%F a(n) = A080757(n-1) + 1; a(n) = A188068(n) + 2. - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Feb 14 2012

%F a(A188069(n)) = 2; a(A188070(n)) = 3. - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Feb 14 2012

%t f[n_, b_, c_, i_] := f[n, b, c, i] = If[n == 1, b, If[c == 0 , f[n-1, 2, a[i], i+1], f[n-1, 3, c-1, i]]]; a[n_] := f[n, 2, 2, 2]; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 100}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Oct 15 2013, after _Reinhard Zumkeller_ *)

%t Table[Floor[n (1 + Sqrt@ 3)] - Floor[(n - 1) (1 + Sqrt@ 3)], {n, 120}] (* _Michael De Vlieger_, Oct 08 2016 *)

%t t = {2};Table[If[t[[i]] == 2, AppendTo[t, #] & /@ {3, 3, 2}, AppendTo[t, #] & /@ {3, 3, 3, 2}], {i, 20}];t (* _Horst H. Manninger_, Jan 11 2024 *)

%o (Haskell)

%o a007538 n = f n 2 2 2 where

%o f 1 b _ _ = b

%o f n b 0 i = f (n - 1) 2 (a007538 i) (i + 1)

%o f n b c i = f (n - 1) 3 (c - 1) i

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Feb 14 2012

%K nonn,easy,nice

%O 1,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, _Simon Plouffe_

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified May 13 20:56 EDT 2024. Contains 372522 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)