Search: id:A005318 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A005318 M1075 %S A005318 0,1,2,4,7,13,24,44,84,161,309,594,1164,2284,4484,8807,17305,34301,68008, %T A005318 134852,267420,530356,1051905,2095003,4172701,8311101,16554194, %U A005318 32973536,65679652,130828948,261127540,521203175,1040311347,2076449993 %N A005318 Conway-Guy sequence: a(n + 1) = 2a(n) - a(n - floor( 1/2 + sqrt(2n) )). %C A005318 Conway and Guy conjecture that the set of k numbers {s_i = a(k) - a(k-i) : 1 <= i <= k} has the property that all its subsets have distinct sums - see Guy's book. These k-sets are the rows of A096858. [This conjecture has apparently now been proved by Bohman. - I. Halupczok (integerSequences(AT)karimmi.de), Feb 20 2006] %D A005318 Tom Bohman: A sum packing problem of Erdos and the Conway-Guy sequence. Proc. AMS 124, (No. 12, 1996), pp. 3627-3636. %D A005318 P. Borwein and M. J. Mossinghoff, Newman Polynomials with Prescribed Vanishing and Integer Sets with Distinct Subset Sums, Math. Comp., 72 (2003), 787-800. %D A005318 J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, Solution of a problem of Erdos, Colloq. Math. 20 (1969), p. 307. %D A005318 R. K. Guy, Sets of integers whose subsets have distinct sums, pp. 141-154 of Theory and practice of combinatorics. Ed. A. Rosa, G. Sabidussi and J. Turgeon. Annals of Discrete Mathematics, 12. North-Holland 1982. %D A005318 R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, C8. %D A005318 Kreweras, G.; Sur quelques problemes relatifs au vote pondere [Some problems of weighted voting], Math. Sci. Humaines No. 84 (1983), 45-63. %D A005318 G. Kreweras, Alvarez Rodriguez, Miguel-Angel; Ponderation entiere minimale de N telle que pour tout k toutes les k-parties de N aient des poids distincts. [Minimal integer weighting of N such that for any k all the k-subsets of N have unequal weights] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math. 296 (1983), no. 8, 345-347. %D A005318 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A005318 M. Wald, Problem 1192, Unequal sums, J. Rec. Math., 15 (No. 2, 1983-1984), pp. 148-149. %H A005318 T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..300 %o A005318 (PARI) a(n)=if(n<=1,n==1,2*a(n-1)-a(n-1-(sqrtint(8*n-15)+1)\2)) %Y A005318 Cf. A037254, A096858, A096796, A096824. %Y A005318 Sequence in context: A054175 A000073 A160254 this_sequence A102111 A059633 A088353 %Y A005318 Adjacent sequences: A005315 A005316 A005317 this_sequence A005319 A005320 A005321 %K A005318 nonn,easy,nice %O A005318 0,3 %A A005318 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). %E A005318 More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Sep 21 2000 Search completed in 0.001 seconds