# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a173524 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A173524 #21 Jul 02 2019 02:59:22 %S A173524 1,2,3,4,2,3,4,5,3,4,5,6,4,5,6,7,2,3,4,5,3,4,5,6,4,5,6,7,5,6,7,8,3,4, %T A173524 5,6,4,5,6,7,5,6,7,8,6,7,8,9,4,5,6,7,5,6,7,8,6,7,8,9,7,8,9,10,2,3,4,5, %U A173524 3,4,5,6,4,5,6,7,5,6,7,8,3,4,5,6,4,5,6,7,5,6,7,8,6,7,8,9,4,5,6,7 %N A173524 a(n) = A053737(4^k+n-1) in the limit k->infinity, where k plays the role of a row index in A053737. %C A173524 It appears that if A053737 is written as a triangle then the rows are initial segments of the present sequence; see the conjecture in A000120. %C A173524 The comments in A173525 (base b=5 there) apply here with base b=4. The base b=3 is considered in A173523. %F A173524 a(n) = A053737(4^k+n-1) where k >= ceiling(log_4(n/3)). [_R. J. Mathar_, Dec 09 2010] %F A173524 Conjecture: Fixed point of the morphism 1->{1,2,3,...,b}, 2->{2,3,4,...,b+1}, j->{j,j+1,...,j+b-1} for b=4. [_Joerg Arndt_, Dec 08 2010] %p A173524 A053737 := proc(n) add(d, d=convert(n,base,4)) ; end proc: %p A173524 A173524 := proc(n) local b; b := 4 ; if n < b then n; else k := n/(b-1); k := ceil(log(k)/log(b)) ; A053737(b^k+n-1) ; end if; end proc: %p A173524 seq(A173524(n),n=1..100) ; # _R. J. Mathar_, Dec 09 2010 %Y A173524 Cf. A000120, A053737, A063787. %Y A173524 Cf. A173523, A173525, A173526, A173527, A173528, A173529. %K A173524 nonn %O A173524 1,2 %A A173524 _Omar E. Pol_, Feb 20 2010 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE