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A210023
a(0)=1. Let S = string of digits of a(0),a(1),a(2),... To get a(n+1) (n>=0), subtract next element of S from a(n) if that would give a positive number different from a(0),...,a(n), otherwise add it to a(n).
3
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 15, 9, 10, 5, 14, 13, 13, 18, 17, 21, 20, 23, 22, 19, 20, 12, 11, 18, 20, 21, 23, 23, 25, 28, 26, 24, 25, 34, 32, 32, 31, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 38, 38, 36, 35, 33, 36, 38, 41, 39, 44, 42, 50, 48, 54, 52, 56, 58, 53, 56, 60, 57, 55, 58, 60, 63, 62, 64, 73, 70, 70, 67, 66, 69, 71, 75, 75, 72, 80, 77, 85, 82, 76, 79, 74, 77, 80, 83, 89, 86, 78, 82, 81, 84, 93, 97, 101, 105, 103, 98, 98
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
A base-dependent variant of Recamán's sequence A005132.
REFERENCES
Eric Angelini, Posting to Sequence Fans Mailing List, Mar 06 2012
CROSSREFS
Cf. A005132, A210022 (for S), A210025, A210026.
Sequence in context: A066600 A210025 A309571 * A301807 A062116 A362896
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 16 2012
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by Max Alekseyev, Nov 11 2012
Offset corrected by N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 16 2021
STATUS
approved