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A003005 Size of the largest subset of the numbers [1...n] which doesn't contain a 6-term arithmetic progression.
(Formerly M0459)
+0
5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 25, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, 29, 30, 31, 31, 31, 32, 33, 34, 34, 35, 36, 37 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

These subsets have been called 6-free sequences.

The g.f. -(-1-z-z**2-z**3-z**4+z**5)/(z**4+z**3+z**2+z+1)/(z-1)**2 conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation is wrong.

REFERENCES

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

S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., On k-free sequences of integers, Math. Comp., 26 (1972), 767-771.

LINKS

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A003002, A003003, A003004, A065825.

Sequence in context: A091863 A163296 A123731 this_sequence A006163 A053757 A106744

Adjacent sequences: A003002 A003003 A003004 this_sequence A003006 A003007 A003008

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

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