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A113138
Self-describing sequence made of strings of consecutive integers. The number of elements in each string is the sequence itself.
3
1, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The less interesting sequence 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, ... obeys the same rule.
LINKS
EXAMPLE
First string is "1", having 1 element. Second string is "3,4,5" having 3 elements. Third string is "1,2,3,4" which has 4 elements. Next string is "1,2,3,4,5", made of 5 elements. Next string is "1", having only 1 element, etc. So we have 1 element, then 3, then 4, then 5, then 1, etc. This is the sequence itself.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A281579.
Sequence in context: A306584 A176948 A368624 * A010263 A011303 A225405
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,nice
AUTHOR
Eric Angelini, Jan 04 2006
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Rémy Sigrist, Feb 08 2017
STATUS
approved