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A050294 Maximum cardinality of a 3-fold-free subset of {1, 2, ..., n}. +0
3
1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 20, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29, 30, 31, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 36, 37, 38, 38, 39, 40, 40, 41, 42, 42, 43, 44, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 49, 50, 51, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

A set is 3-fold-free if it does not contain any subset of the form {x, 3x}.

REFERENCES

Bruce Reznick, Problem 1440, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 67 (1994).

B. Reznick and R. Holzsager, r-fold free sets of positive integers, Math. Magazine 68 (1995) 71-72.

LINKS

S. R. Finch, Triple-Free Sets of Integers

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

FORMULA

Take r = 3 in a(n) = (r n + sum [k = 0 to m] (-1)^k b(k)) / (r + 1), where [b(m) b(m-1) ... b(0)] is the base-r representation of n. - Rob Pratt (Rob.Pratt(AT)sas.com), Apr 21 2004

CROSSREFS

Cf. A050291-A050296.

Sequence in context: A103354 A127038 A051068 this_sequence A097950 A011885 A008672

Adjacent sequences: A050291 A050292 A050293 this_sequence A050295 A050296 A050297

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com)

EXTENSIONS

More terms from John W. Layman (layman(AT)math.vt.edu), Oct 25 2002

Corrected and edited by S. R. Finch (Steven.Finch(AT)inria.fr), Feb 25 2009

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