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A374997
Position of the last requested element when the elements of the n-th composition (in standard order) are requested from a self-organizing list initialized to (1, 2, 3, ...), using the move-to-front updating strategy.
5
1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 6, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 7, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 5, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
See A374992 for details.
FORMULA
a(n) = A374992(n) - A374992(A025480(n-1)).
a(n) = A375001(k,n) whenever k >= A333766(n)-1.
Sum_{j=1..m} a(n*2^j+2^(j-1)) = m*(m+1)/2 if m >= A333766(n). This is a consequence of the fact that the first m positions of the list are occupied by the elements 1, ..., m, as long as no element larger than m has been requested so far.
CROSSREFS
Analogous sequences for other updating strategies: A374998, A374999, A375000, A375001.
Cf. A025480, A066099 (compositions in standard order), A333766, A374992.
Sequence in context: A260088 A364969 A374999 * A339399 A272911 A371014
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved