A256792 Numbers whose minimal alternating squares representation has positive trace.

1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 44, 46, 47, 49, 52, 54, 56, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 69, 71, 73, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 85, 88, 90, 92, 95, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 106, 109, 111, 113, 116, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125

Offset

1,2

Comments

See A256789 for definitions.

Links

Clark Kimberling, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Example

R(1) = 1; trace = 1, positive.
R(2) = 4 - 2; trace = -2, negative.
R(3) = 4 - 1; trace = -1, negative.

Mathematica

b[n_] := n^2; bb = Table[b[n], {n, 0, 1000}];
s[n_] := Table[b[n], {k, 1, 2 n - 1}];
h[1] = {1}; h[n_] := Join[h[n - 1], s[n]];
g = h[100]; r[0] = {0}; r[1] = {1}; r[2] = {4, -2};
r[n_] := If[MemberQ[bb, n], {n}, Join[{g[[n]]}, -r[g[[n]] - n]]];
Table[r[n], {n, 0, 120}] (* A256789 *)
u = Flatten[Table[Last[r[n]], {n, 1, 1000}]];  (* A256791 *)
Select[Range[800], u[[#]] > 0 &] (* A256792 *)
Select[Range[800], u[[#]] < 0 &] (* A256793 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A256789, A256793 (complement).

Sequence in context: A183870 A186497 A193627 * A367186 A345665 A343177

Adjacent sequences: A256789 A256790 A256791 * A256793 A256794 A256795

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Clark Kimberling, Apr 13 2015

Status

approved