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A136640 A limited integer Devil's staircase from a winding number function. 2
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 9, 13, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 51, 53, 54, 56, 58, 58, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 67, 67, 67, 67, 67, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,33

COMMENTS

Designed to be integer and 200 in length, this function is a limited

representation of a Devil's staircase function; a projection of a set of

rational numbers onto the Integers.

LINKS

Per Bak, Commensurate phases, incommensurate phases and the devil's staircase, Rep. Prog. Phys. 45 (1982) pp.587-629.

E. W. Weisstein, Devils Staircase, MathWorld

FORMULA

a(n)=Floor[1+200*Winding_Number(Omega)]: 0<=omega<=1;in steps of 1/200

MATHEMATICA

f[{omega_, t_}]:={omega, t+omega-Sin[2Pi t]/(2Pi)}; WindingNumber[n_, {omega_, t_}]:=(Nest[f, {omega, t}, n][[2]]-t)/n; a=Table[Floor[1+200*WindingNumber[1000, {omega, 0}]], {omega, 0, 1, .005}]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A135740 A010412 A033662 * A068949 A141000 A140485

Adjacent sequences:  A136637 A136638 A136639 * A136641 A136642 A136643

KEYWORD

nonn,less,uned

AUTHOR

Roger L. Bagula (rlbagulatftn(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 01 2008

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