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A005487 Starts 0, 4 and contains no 3-term arithmetic progression.
(Formerly M3243)
11
0, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 16, 23, 26, 31, 33, 37, 38, 44, 49, 56, 73, 78, 80, 85, 95, 99, 106, 124, 128, 131, 136, 143, 169, 188, 197, 203, 220, 221, 226, 227, 238, 247, 259, 269, 276, 284, 287, 302, 308, 310, 313, 319, 337, 385, 392, 397, 422, 434, 455, 466, 470 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

This is what would now be called the Stanley Sequence S(0,4). See A185256.

REFERENCES

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, E10.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Chai Wah Wu, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000

P. Erdos, V. Lev, G. Rauzy, C. Sandor, A. Sarkozy, Greedy algorithm, arithmetic progressions, subset sums and divisibility, Discrete Mathematics 200 (1999), pp. 119-135.

R. A. Moy and D. Rolnick, Novel structures in Stanley sequences, arXiv:1502.06013 [math.CO], 2015.

R. A. Moy and D. Rolnick, Novel structures in Stanley sequences, Discrete Math., 339 (2016), 689-698.

A. M. Odlyzko and R. P. Stanley, Some curious sequences constructed with the greedy algorithm, 1978

Index entries related to non-averaging sequences

MATHEMATICA

ss[s1_, M_] := Module[{n, chvec, swi, p, s2, i, j, t1, mmm}, t1 = Length[s1]; mmm = 1000; s2 = Table[s1, {t1 + M}] // Flatten; chvec = Array[0&, mmm]; For[i = 1 , i <= t1 , i++, chvec[[s2[[i]] ]] = 1]; (* get n-th term *) For[n = t1+1 , n <= t1 + M , n++, (* try i as next term *) For[i = s2[[n-1]] + 1 , i <= mmm , i++, swi = -1; (* test against j-th term *) For[ j = 1 , j <= n-2 , j++, p = s2[[n - j]]; If[ 2*p - i < 0 , Break[] ]; If[ chvec[[2*p - i]] == 1 , swi = 1; Break[] ] ]; If[ swi == -1 , s2[[n]] = i; chvec[[i]] = 1; Break[] ] ]; If[ swi == 1 , Print["Error, no solution at n = ", n] ] ]; Table[s2[[i]], {i, 1, t1+M}] ]; ss[{0, 4}, 80] (* Jean-François Alcover, Sep 10 2013, translated from Maple program given in A185256 *)

PROG

(Python)

A005487_list = [0, 4]

for i in range(101-2):

n, flag = A005487_list[-1]+1, False

while True:

for j in range(i+1, 0, -1):

m = 2*A005487_list[j]-n

if m in A005487_list:

break

if m < A005487_list[0]:

flag = True

break

else:

A005487_list.append(n)

break

if flag:

A005487_list.append(n)

break

n += 1 # Chai Wah Wu, Jan 05 2016

CROSSREFS

Equals A033158(n+1)-1. Cf. A185256.

Sequence in context: A074300 A344157 A047375 * A291741 A084087 A175903

Adjacent sequences: A005484 A005485 A005486 * A005488 A005489 A005490

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane

EXTENSIONS

Name clarified by Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 30 2014

STATUS

approved

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