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A059769 Frobenius number of the subsemigroup of the natural numbers generated by successive pairs of Fibonacci numbers. 11
1, 7, 27, 83, 239, 659, 1781, 4751, 12583, 33175, 87231, 228983, 600473, 1573655, 4122467, 10796939, 28273519, 74031979, 193835949, 507497759, 1328692751, 3478637807, 9107313407, 23843452463, 62423286769, 163426800679 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

3,2

REFERENCES

R. Froberg, C. Gottlieb and R. Haggkvist, "On numerical semigroups", Semigroup Forum, 35 (1987), 63-83 (for definition of Frobenius number).

FORMULA

a(n)=(F(n)-1)*(F(n+1)-1)-1 where F(n) is the n-th Fibonacci number

EXAMPLE

a(3)=1 because the 3rd and 4th Fibonacci numbers are 2 and 3, so a(3)=(2-1)(3-1)-1=1. Or, a(3)=1 because 1 is the largest positive integer that is not a nonnegative linear combination of 2 and 3.

MATHEMATICA

Table[(Fibonacci[n]-1)(Fibonacci[n+1]-1)-1, {n, 3, 28}] - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Nov 27 2006

CROSSREFS

A000045.

Sequence in context: A036597 A038092 A059823 * A135914 A006350 A054485

Adjacent sequences:  A059766 A059767 A059768 * A059770 A059771 A059772

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Victoria A Sapko (vsapko(AT)math.unl.edu), Feb 21 2001

EXTENSIONS

Corrected by T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Nov 27 2006

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