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A137181 Maximal number of symbols in terms generated by an inefficient set of rewrite rules for flattening combinator expressions of initial size n. +0
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1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 273, 65569, 4294967361, 15177100720513508366558296147058741458143803430094840009779784451085189728165691\ 939 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

LINKS

C. Okasaki, A Spectacular Failure

FORMULA

a(n) = 2^(n-1), for n <= 6; a(n) = 2^a(n-3) + 2*a(n-3) + 1, for n > 6

EXAMPLE

For n=6, the maximum result is generated from the initial term X (X (X (X (X X)))). For n=10, the maximum result is generated from the initial term X (X X) (X (X X) (X (X (X X)))).

CROSSREFS

Adjacent sequences: A137178 A137179 A137180 this_sequence A137182 A137183 A137184

Sequence in context: A035523 A078227 A138814 this_sequence A036373 A119610 A121485

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Chris Okasaki (cokasaki(AT)acm.org), Apr 04 2008

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