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A226066
Smallest k such that n numbers can be picked in {1,...,k} with no six terms in arithmetic progression.
1
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62
OFFSET
1,2
REFERENCES
Knuth, Donald E., Satisfiability, Fascicle 6, volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming. Addison-Wesley, 2015, pages 135 and 190, Problem 31.
LINKS
Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr., On k-free sequences of integers, Math. Comp., 26 (1972), 767-771.
CROSSREFS
This sequence is to A003005 as A065825 is to A003002.
Sequence in context: A039161 A032797 A001967 * A005838 A184486 A047203
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Don Knuth, Aug 05 2013
STATUS
approved