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A007542 Successive integers produced by Conway's PRIMEGAME.
(Formerly M2084)
+0
3
2, 15, 825, 725, 1925, 2275, 425, 390, 330, 290, 770, 910, 170, 156, 132, 116, 308, 364, 68, 4, 30, 225, 12375, 10875, 28875, 25375, 67375, 79625, 14875, 13650, 2550, 2340, 1980, 1740, 4620, 4060, 10780, 12740, 2380, 2184, 408, 152 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

J. H. Conway, FRACTRAN: a simple universal programming language for arithmetic, in T. M. Cover and Gopinath, eds., Open Problems in Communication and Computation, Springer, NY 1987, pp. 4-26.

R. K. Guy, Conway's prime producing machine. Math. Mag. 56 (1983), no. 1, 26-33.

D. Olivastro, Ancient Puzzles. Bantam Books, NY, 1993, p. 21.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..8103

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

MAPLE

l:= [17/91, 78/85, 19/51, 23/38, 29/33, 77/29, 95/23, 77/19, 1/17, 11/13, 13/11, 15/2, 1/7, 55]: a:= proc(n) option remember; global l; local p, k; if n=1 then 2 else p:= a(n-1); for k while not type (p*l[k], integer) do od; p*l[k] fi end: seq (a(n), n=1..50); [From Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Aug 12 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A007546, A007547.

Sequence in context: A013095 A038017 A012993 this_sequence A090604 A007467 A132317

Adjacent sequences: A007539 A007540 A007541 this_sequence A007543 A007544 A007545

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

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