OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Applying b a third time produces a smaller value for every number in this sequence up to 10^10, except 1.
Of the first 43 terms, only the following nine are not squares: 350561925, 960362325, 1591004025, 1735566525, 1753206525, 1831175325, 4558583925, 6745097205, 8766517725, and incidentally, all of them are terms of A228058. - Antti Karttunen, Jun 16 2019
But see also comments in A348743. - Antti Karttunen, Nov 30 2024
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CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jun 29 2009
EXTENSIONS
Values for n > 3 from Robert Gerbicz
STATUS
approved