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A036567 Basic numbers used in Sedgewick-Incerpi upper bound for shell sort. 2
3, 7, 16, 41, 101, 247, 613, 1529, 3821, 9539, 23843, 59611, 149015, 372539, 931327, 2328307, 5820767, 14551919, 36379789, 90949471, 227373677, 568434193, 1421085473, 3552713687, 8881784201, 22204460497, 55511151233, 138777878081 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3, Sorting and Searching, 2nd ed, section 5.2.1, pg 91.

LINKS

Robert Sedgewick, Analysis of shellsort and related algorithms, Fourth European Symposium on Algorithms, Barcelona, September, 1996.

Index entries for sequences related to sorting

FORMULA

a(n) is the smallest number >= 2.5^n that is relatively prime to all previous terms in the sequence.

EXAMPLE

2.5^4=39.0625, 41 is the next integer that is relatively prime to 3, 7 and 16.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A036569.

Sequence in context: A001698 A029761 A009337 * A018023 A144977 A058300

Adjacent sequences:  A036564 A036565 A036566 * A036568 A036569 A036570

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Better description and more terms from Jud McCranie (JudMcCranie(AT)ugaalum.uga.edu), Jan 05 2001

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