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A251555 a(1)=1, a(2)=3, a(3)=2; thereafter a(n) is the smallest number not occurring earlier having at least one common factor with a(n-2), but none with a(n-1). 5

%I #23 Aug 02 2018 11:54:49

%S 1,3,2,9,4,15,8,5,6,25,12,35,16,7,10,21,20,27,14,33,26,11,13,22,39,28,

%T 45,32,51,38,17,18,85,24,55,34,65,36,91,30,49,40,63,44,57,46,19,23,76,

%U 69,50,81,52,75,56,87,62,29,31,58,93,64,99,68,77,48,119,54,133,60,161,66,115,42,95,72,125

%N a(1)=1, a(2)=3, a(3)=2; thereafter a(n) is the smallest number not occurring earlier having at least one common factor with a(n-2), but none with a(n-1).

%C A variant of A098550. See that entry for much more information.

%C It seems likely that this sequence will never merge with A098550, but it would be nice to have a proof.

%C A252912 gives numbers m, such that a(m) = A098550(m), see also A252939 and A252940. - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Dec 25 2014

%H Chai Wah Wu, <a href="/A251555/b251555.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H David L. Applegate, Hans Havermann, Bob Selcoe, Vladimir Shevelev, N. J. A. Sloane, and Reinhard Zumkeller, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01669">The Yellowstone Permutation</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01669 [math.NT], 2015 and <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL18/Sloane/sloane9.html">J. Int. Seq. 18 (2015) 15.6.7</a>.

%t a[1]=1; a[2]=3; a[3]=2;

%t A251555 = Array[a, 3];

%t a[n_] := a[n] = For[k=2, True, k++, If[FreeQ[A251555, k], If[!CoprimeQ[k, a[n-2]] && CoprimeQ[k, a[n-1]], AppendTo[A251555, k]; Return[k]]]];

%t A251555 = Array[a, 100] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Aug 02 2018 *)

%o (Python)

%o from fractions import gcd

%o A251555_list, l1, l2, s, b = [1,3,2], 2, 3, 4, set()

%o for _ in range(10**4):

%o ....i = s

%o ....while True:

%o ........if not i in b and gcd(i,l1) == 1 and gcd(i,l2) > 1:

%o ............A251555_list.append(i)

%o ............l2, l1 = l1, i

%o ............b.add(i)

%o ............while s in b:

%o ................b.remove(s)

%o ................s += 1

%o ............break

%o ........i += 1 # _Chai Wah Wu_, Dec 21 2014

%o (Haskell)

%o import Data.List (delete)

%o a251555 n = a251555_list !! (n-1)

%o a251555_list = 1 : 3 : 2 : f 3 2 [4..] where

%o f u v ws = g ws where

%o g (x:xs) = if gcd x u > 1 && gcd x v == 1

%o then x : f v x (delete x ws) else g xs

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Dec 24 2014

%Y Cf. A098550, A251554.

%Y Cf. A252912, A252939, A252940.

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, Dec 21 2014

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