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A005378 The female of a pair of recurrences.
(Formerly M0263)
+0
6
1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24, 24, 25, 25, 26, 27, 27, 28, 29, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 33, 34, 34, 35, 35, 36, 37, 37, 38, 38, 39, 40, 40, 41, 42, 42, 43, 43, 44, 45, 45 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENT

The g.f. (1+z**2+z**4-z**5+z**6)/(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).

Hofstadter, "Goedel, Escher, Bach", p. 137.

Th. Stoll, On Hofstadter's married functions, Fib. Q., 46/47 (2008/2009), 62-67. - from N. J. A. Sloane, May 30 2009

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.

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

Index entries for Hofstadter-type sequences

Index entries for sequences from "Goedel, Escher, Bach"

FORMULA

F(0) = 1; M(0) = 0; F(n) = n-M(F(n-1)); M(n) = n-F(M(n-1)).

CROSSREFS

Cf. A005379.

Sequence in context: A085268 A098294 A077467 this_sequence A103355 A029092 A024699

Adjacent sequences: A005375 A005376 A005377 this_sequence A005379 A005380 A005381

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Jul 12 2000

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