OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
(1) A fractal sequence. (2) The para-sequence may be regarded as a sort of "limit" of the concatenated segments. The para-sequence (itself not a sequence) is dense in the sense that every pair of terms i and j are separated by another term (and hence separated by infinitely many terms. (3) The para-sequence accounts for positions of triadic rational numbers in the following way: 1/3 < 2/3 matches the segment 1,2; 1/9 < 2/9 < 1/3 < 4/9 < 5/9 < 2/3 < 7/9 < 8/9 matches the segment 3,4,1,5,6,2,7,8, etc.
REFERENCES
C. Kimberling, Proper self-containing sequences, fractal sequences and para-sequences, preprint, 2007.
LINKS
Clark Kimberling, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Clark Kimberling, Self-Containing Sequences, Selection Functions, and Parasequences, J. Int. Seq. Vol. 25 (2022), Article 22.2.1.
EXAMPLE
The first segment is 1,2; the 2nd is 3,4,1,5,6,2,7,8; the 4th begins with 27,28,9 and ends with 26,79,80.
MATHEMATICA
Flatten@NestList[Riffle[Range[Length[#] + 1, 3 Length[#] + 2], #, 3] &, {1, 2}, 3] (* Birkas Gyorgy, Mar 11 2011 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Clark Kimberling, Sep 12 2007
STATUS
approved