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A005229 a(1)=a(2)=1; for n>2, a(n)=a(a(n-2))+a(n-a(n-2)).
(Formerly M0441)
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28
1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 19, 20, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 24, 25, 26, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29, 30, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 36, 37, 37, 38, 39, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 43, 44, 45, 45, 45, 46 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,3

COMMENT

By induction a(n)<=n, but exact rate of growth is not known.

REFERENCES

J. Arkin, D. C. Arney, L. S. Dewald and W. E. Ebel, Jr., Families of recursive sequences, J. Rec. Math., 22 (No. 22, 1990), 85-94.

C. L. Mallows, Conway's challenge sequence, Amer. Math. Monthly, 98 (1991), 5-20.

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

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..1000

Nick Hobson, Python program for this sequence

N. J. A. Sloane, My favorite integer sequences, in Sequences and their Applications (Proceedings of SETA '98).

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

MAPLE

A005229 := proc(n) option remember; if n<=2 then 1 else A005229(A005229(n-2))+A005229(n-A005229(n-2)); fi; end;

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=an[ n ]; an=vector(100, n, 1); for(n=3, 100, an[ n ]=a(a(n-2))+a(n-a(n-2)))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004001, A051105.

Sequence in context: A006161 A132351 A025556 this_sequence A091245 A100618 A061288

Adjacent sequences: A005226 A005227 A005228 this_sequence A005230 A005231 A005232

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com)

EXTENSIONS

Typo in definition corrected by Nick Hobson, Feb 21 2007

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