Logo

Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!

Hints

Search: id:A060984
Displaying 1-1 of 1 results found. page 1
     Format: long | short | internal | text      Sort: relevance | references | number      Highlight: on | off
A060984 a(1) = 1; a(n+1) = a(n) + (largest square <= a(n)). +0
5
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 21, 37, 73, 137, 258, 514, 998, 1959, 3895, 7739, 15308, 30437, 60713, 121229, 242333, 484397, 967422, 1933711, 3865811, 7730967, 15459367, 30912128, 61814609, 123625653, 247235577, 494448306, 988888002, 1977738918, 3955408759 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Arises in analyzing `put-or-take' games (see Winning Ways, 484-486, 501-503), the prototype being Epstein's Put-or-Take-a-Square game.

REFERENCES

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

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=1,...,500

FORMULA

a(n+1) = a(n)+[sqrt(a(n))]^2 = a(n)+A061886(n) = a(n)+A048760(a(n)) = A061887(a(n)) - Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), May 12 2001

MATHEMATICA

a[1] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = a[n - 1] + Floor[ Sqrt[ a[n - 1] ] ]^2; Table[ a[n], {n, 1, 40} ]

PROGRAM

(PARI) { default(realprecision, 100); for (n=1, 500, if (n==1, a=1, a+=floor(sqrt(a))^2); write("b060984.txt", n, " ", a); ) } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jul 15 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A060985.

Sequence in context: A013914 A060200 A057608 this_sequence A098348 A131420 A095705

Adjacent sequences: A060981 A060982 A060983 this_sequence A060985 A060986 A060987

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

R. K. Guy (rkg(AT)cpsc.ucalgary.ca), May 11 2001

EXTENSIONS

More terms from David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net), Henry Bottomley and Robert G. Wilson v, May 12, 2001

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 December 8 08:31 EST 2009. Contains 170430 sequences.


AT&T Labs Research