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A093650
Natural numbers arranged in a square maze beginning 1, 2, 3, then moving right, then up, right, down, left, down, right, etc., and read by antidiagonals upwards.
2
1, 2, 6, 3, 5, 7, 12, 4, 8, 20, 13, 11, 9, 19, 21, 30, 14, 10, 18, 22, 42, 31, 29, 15, 17, 23, 41, 43, 56, 32, 28, 16, 24, 40, 44, 72, 57, 55, 33, 27, 25, 39, 45, 71, 73, 90, 58, 54, 34, 26, 38, 46, 70, 74, 110, 91, 89, 59, 53, 35, 37, 47, 69, 75, 109, 111
OFFSET
1,2
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 6 because the maze begins 2 under 1, 3 under 2, 4 right of 3, 5 right of 2 and 6 right of 1.
Array begins:
1 6---7 20 ...
| | | |
2 5 8 19 ...
| | | |
3---4 9 18 ...
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12--11--10 17 ...
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13--14--15--16 ...
...
CROSSREFS
Other square mazes: A081344, A081349.
Sequence in context: A259018 A353649 A084355 * A064433 A163338 A323335
KEYWORD
nonn,tabl
AUTHOR
Michael Joseph Halm, May 15 2004
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Jinyuan Wang, Jun 15 2022
STATUS
approved