Re^4: 2, 2, 2, 3, 7, 22, 83, ...

Ah that vaguly looks familar (high school was a long time ago). Now I don't think it can be applied to this series as part of the definition says "where no two x_j are the same." Or am I misssing something?

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Re^5: 2, 2, 2, 3, 7, 22, 83, ... by Articuno (Beadle) on Feb 07, 2006 at 21:03 UTC
Yes, you are missing something :-) In this case, the x's are 1,2,3,4,5,...,n and the y's are 2,2,2,3,7,...m And the method gives a function f so that f(1) = 2, f(2) = 2, f(3) = 2, f(4) = 3, and so on... -- 6x9=42	[reply]


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