Logo

Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!

Hints

Search: id:A002186
Displaying 1-1 of 1 results found. page 1
     Format: long | short | internal | text      Sort: relevance | references | number      Highlight: on | off
A002186 Sprague-Grundy values for the game of Kayles (octal games .77 and .771).
(Formerly M0410 N0156)
+0
4
0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 6, 4, 1, 2, 7, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 5, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 4, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2, 8, 1, 4, 7, 2, 1 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENT

Octal games 4.4, 4.41, 4.42, 4.43, 4.6, 4.61, 4.62 and 4.63 have values a(n-1).

"The periodicity was first proved by R. K. Guy in 1949, the sequence necessarily being calculated by hand." [Beasley].

REFERENCES

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

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, Winning Ways, Academic Press, NY, 2 vols., 1982, see p. 91.

J. H. Conway, On Numbers and Games, Second Edition. A K Peters, Ltd, 2001, p. 128.

Guy, R. K. and Smith, C. A. B.; The G-values of various games. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 52 (1956), 514-526.

John D. Beasley, The Mathematics of Games, Dover Publ., Mineola, NY 2006, page 111.

LINKS

Achim Flammenkamp, Octal games

FORMULA

From n=71 on, the sequence is periodic with period 12. The only exceptions are n=0, 3, 6, 9, 11, 15, 18, 21, 22, 28, 34, 39, 57 and 70.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A071074, A071434.

Sequence in context: A125933 A011857 A006021 this_sequence A125936 A161621 A095701

Adjacent sequences: A002183 A002184 A002185 this_sequence A002187 A002188 A002189

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Francisco Salinas (franciscodesalinas(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 08 2001

Edited by Christian G. Bower (bowerc(AT)usa.net), Oct 22 2002

page 1

Search completed in 0.002 seconds

Lookup | Welcome | Find friends | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by N. J. A. Sloane (njas@research.att.com)

Last modified November 27 22:38 EST 2009. Contains 167602 sequences.


AT&T Labs Research