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A132134
Base 3 "Punctual Bird" numbers: write the natural numbers, base 3, in a string 12101112202122100101102... Sequence gives numbers which do not occur in the string ahead of their natural place.
1
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15, 18, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 42, 45, 54, 60, 81, 83, 86, 87, 89, 92, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 104, 105, 107, 123, 126, 135, 141, 153, 162, 243, 245, 248, 249, 251, 252, 254, 257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 266, 267, 269, 275, 276, 278, 285, 287, 288
OFFSET
1,2
EXAMPLE
a(5)=6 because 6 (20, base 3) is the fifth number that appears first in its "natural" place in the string of concatenated base-3 numbers.
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Graeme McRae, Aug 11 2007
STATUS
approved