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A091569 a(1) = 1; for n > 1, a(n) is the smallest positive integer not already used such that a(n)*a(n-1) + 1 is a perfect square. 2
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 8, 6, 4, 2, 12, 10, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 52, 50, 48, 35, 33, 31, 29, 27, 25, 23, 21, 19, 17, 64, 62, 60, 40, 38, 148, 146, 144, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Does this sequence contain every positive integer? We could get an equally interesting sequence by choosing a(1) to be any other positive integer.

EXAMPLE

10 is followed by 36 because 10*36+1 = 19^2 and 8 and 12 were already used.

PROG

(Matlab) program by D. Wasserman A = zeros(1, 100); A(1) = 1; used = zeros(1, 1000); used(1) = 1; for i = 2:100; found = 0; k = 0; while found == 0; k = k + 1; if used(k) == 0; s = sqrt(k*A(i - 1) + 1); if s == floor(s); A(i) = k; used(k) = 1; found = 1; end; end; end; end; A

CROSSREFS

Cf. A083203.

Sequence in context: A187472 A187411 A189401 * A206545 A120890 A134322

Adjacent sequences:  A091566 A091567 A091568 * A091570 A091571 A091572

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

David Wasserman (wasserma(AT)spawar.navy.mil), Mar 04 2004

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