A368559 a(1) = 1, a(2) = 2; for n > 2, a(n) is the smallest positive number not occurring earlier such that a(n) contains all the distinct digits of a(n-1) - a(n-2).

1, 2, 10, 8, 12, 4, 18, 14, 24, 100, 67, 3, 46, 34, 21, 13, 28, 15, 31, 16, 51, 35, 61, 26, 53, 27, 62, 135, 37, 89, 25, 64, 39, 52, 103, 105, 20, 58, 38, 102, 146, 40, 106, 6, 101, 59, 42, 17, 125, 108, 71, 73, 22, 115, 93, 23, 70, 47, 32, 145, 113, 123, 104, 19, 85, 36, 49, 130, 81, 94

Offset

1,2

Comments

The sequence is conjectured to be a permutation of the positive integers. The fixed points begin 1, 2, 95, 122, 156, 318, 1644, 1964, 2189, 2740, 8264, 16904, ... although it is likely there are infinitely more.

Links

Scott R. Shannon, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Scott R. Shannon, Image of the first 250000 terms. The green line is a(n) = n.

Example

a(3) = 10 as a(2) - a(1) = 2 - 1 = 1, and 10 is the smallest unused number to contain 1.
a(11) = 67 as a(10) - a(9) = 100 - 24 = 76, and 67 is the smallest unused number to contain 7 and 6.

Crossrefs

Cf. A362093, A362075, A184992, A069638.

Sequence in context: A267500 A355785 A300016 * A166542 A316967 A189711

Adjacent sequences: A368556 A368557 A368558 * A368560 A368561 A368562

Keyword

nonn,base

Author

Scott R. Shannon, Dec 30 2023

Status

approved