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A123724 Partial sums of (-1)^floor(n*2^(1/3)). 4
-1, 0, -1, -2, -1, -2, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, -2, -1, -2, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, -2, -1, -2, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,4

COMMENTS

Remarkably, these partial sums appear to have several periods of length 153008. This sum is not discussed by O'Bryant et al.

REFERENCES

Kevin O'Bryant, Bruce Reznick and Monika Serbinowska, Almost alternating sums, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 113 (October 2006), 673-688.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..40000

T. D. Noe, Plot of 10^6 terms

MATHEMATICA

Rest[FoldList[Plus, 0, (-1)^Floor[2^(1/3)*Range[120]]]]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A123737 (sum for sqrt(2)), A123738 (sum for pi), A123739 (sum for e).

Sequence in context: A165575 A165582 A165472 * A107016 A066057 A060588

Adjacent sequences:  A123721 A123722 A123723 * A123725 A123726 A123727

KEYWORD

easy,nice,sign

AUTHOR

T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Oct 11 2006

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