A361724 Lexicographically earliest sequence of distinct positive numbers on a square spiral such that the eight sums of each number with its eight nearest neighbors are distinct across the entire spiral and no number on the spiral equals any such sum.

1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 14, 16, 22, 27, 10, 31, 40, 39, 46, 47, 20, 45, 52, 61, 60, 18, 80, 68, 81, 82, 70, 89, 94, 83, 48, 62, 105, 100, 69, 117, 25, 111, 129, 127, 124, 143, 106, 112, 132, 155, 119, 126, 128, 63, 56, 157, 158, 107, 178, 193, 168, 118, 170, 55, 195, 189, 197, 192, 206, 182, 211, 202

Offset

1,2

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..67.

Scott R. Shannon, Image of the first 50000 terms. The green line is a(n) = n.

Scott R. Shannon, Image of the first 50000 terms on the square spiral. The numbers are spread across the spectrum from red to violet to show their relative size. Zoom in to see the numbers.

Scott R. Shannon, Image of the first 200000 terms.

Example

a(3) = 4 as a(1) + a(2) = 1 + 2 = 3, so a(3) cannot 1,2 or 3. a(3) has a(1) = 1 and a(2) = 2 as neighbors which form sums 4 + 1 = 5 and 4 + 2 = 6 neither of which have appeared, so 4 can be chosen.
a(5) = 12 as the numbers already used are 1,2,4,7, which form the sums 3,5,8,6,9,11 with their nearest neighbors. The lowest free number is therefore 10, but a(5) has a(1) = 1 as a neighbor and would create the sum 10 + 1 = 11 which has already appeared as a sum. The next free number is 12 which forms sums 12 + 7 = 19 and 12 + 1 = 13 which have not appeared, so 12 can be chosen.

Crossrefs

Cf. A274640, A355270, A358151, A307834, A174344, A274923

Sequence in context: A193841 A052474 A033054 * A359338 A362652 A266186

Adjacent sequences: A361721 A361722 A361723 * A361725 A361726 A361727

Keyword

nonn,look

Author

Scott R. Shannon and Eric Angelini, Mar 22 2023

Status

approved