A081556 Next-to-last term in n-th row of A080504.

1, 2, 5, 4, 8, 6, 11, 8, 14, 10, 17, 12, 20, 14, 23, 16, 26, 18, 29, 20, 32, 22, 32, 24, 38, 26, 41, 28, 44, 30, 47, 32, 50, 34, 53, 36, 56, 38, 59, 40, 62, 42, 65, 44, 68, 46, 71, 48, 74, 50, 77, 52, 80, 54, 83, 56, 86, 58, 89, 60, 92, 62, 95, 64, 98, 66, 101, 68, 104, 70

Offset

2,2

Comments

If n is odd, a(n) = n-1. If n is even, n-1 <= a(n) <= 3n/2-1. For even n up to 100, a(n) = 3n/2-1 unless n = 2 or 24; are there other exceptions? - Dean Hickerson, Mar 21 2003

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=2..71.

Example

a(24)=32 since the 24th row of A080504 can be exhibited as: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, y with y = 3^15*5^20*7^21*11^22*13^23*17^23*19^23.

Crossrefs

Cf. A080504, A080505, A080506, A080507.

Sequence in context: A146101 A206256 A093052 * A187012 A134079 A033686

Adjacent sequences: A081553 A081554 A081555 * A081557 A081558 A081559

Keyword

nonn

Author

Dean Hickerson, Mar 21 2003

Status

approved