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Fibonacci tower: a(n) = F(a(n-1)+2) (there is no room for next term).
(Formerly M0742)
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%I M0742 #26 Apr 10 2021 22:18:33

%S 1,2,3,5,13,610

%N Fibonacci tower: a(n) = F(a(n-1)+2) (there is no room for next term).

%C The next term has 128 digits. - _Harvey P. Dale_, Sep 13 2011

%D Goldstein, Arthur S.; Reingold, Edward M.; A Fibonacci version of Kraft's inequality applied to discrete unimodal search. SIAM J. Comput. 22 (1993), no. 4, 751-777.

%D N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

%p A006985 := proc(n) option remember; if n=0 then 1; else fibonacci(A006985(n-1)+2); fi; end;

%t NestList[Fibonacci[#+2]&,1,6] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Sep 13 2011 *)

%o (Haskell)

%o a006985 n = a006985_list !! (n-1)

%o a006985_list = 1 : map (a000045 . (+ 2)) a006985_list

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Jul 17 2015

%K nonn,nice,easy

%O 0,2

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_