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A080711
a(0) = 2; for n>0, a(n) is taken to be the smallest positive integer greater than a(n-1) which is consistent with the condition "n is a member of the sequence if and only if a(n) is a multiple of 3".
3
2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42, 45, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 63, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112
OFFSET
0,1
LINKS
B. Cloitre, N. J. A. Sloane and M. J. Vandermast, Numerical analogues of Aronson's sequence, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 6 (2003), #03.2.2.
B. Cloitre, N. J. A. Sloane and M. J. Vandermast, Numerical analogues of Aronson's sequence (math.NT/0305308)
FORMULA
a(a(n)) = 3*(n+2).
PROG
(PARI) {a=2; m=[2]; for(n=1, 68, print1(a, ", "); a=a+1; if(m[1]==n, while(a%3>0, a++); m=if(length(m)==1, [], vecextract(m, "2..")), if(a%3==0, a++)); m=concat(m, a))}
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 05 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms and PARI code from Klaus Brockhaus, Mar 06 2003
STATUS
approved