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Term at which n-Somos sequence first becomes nonintegral.
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%I #21 Mar 08 2023 08:45:09

%S 17,19,20,22,24,27,28,30,33,34,36,39,41,42,44,46,48,51,52,55,56,58,60,

%T 62,65,66,68,70,72,75,76,78,81,82,84,86,88,90,92,94,96,98,100,102,104,

%U 107,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,123,124,126,129,130,132,134,136,138

%N Term at which n-Somos sequence first becomes nonintegral.

%C A101591 lists the positions of the odd terms. - _Paul D. Hanna_, Dec 08 2004

%C Conjecture: for even terms, a(n) = 2*n, else a(n) = 2*n+1 when n is in A101591. - _Paul D. Hanna_, Dec 08 2004

%C There does not seem to be a published proof that a(n) is defined for all n>=8. - _Michael Somos_, Jul 19 2014

%H Ralph H. Buchholz and Randall L. Rathbun, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974977">An infinite set of Heron triangles with two rational medians</a>, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, No. 2 (Feb., 1997), pp. 107-115.

%H Harini Desiraju and Brady Haran, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-HN_ICaCyM">The Troublemaker Number</a>, Numberphile video (2022).

%H David Gale, <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03024070">The strange and surprising saga of the Somos sequences</a>, Math. Intelligencer 13(1) (1991), pp. 40-42.

%H J. L. Malouf, <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(92)90714-Q">An integer sequence from a rational recursion</a>, Discr. Math. 110 (1992), 257-261.

%H R. M. Robinson, <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1140672-5">Periodicity of Somos sequences</a>, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 116 (1992), 613-619.

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SomosSequence.html">Somos Sequence.</a>

%Y Cf. A101591.

%K nonn

%O 8,1

%A _Eric W. Weisstein_

%E More terms from _Paul D. Hanna_, Dec 08 2004