A020656 Lexicographically earliest increasing sequence of nonnegative numbers that contains no arithmetic progression of length 6.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72, 76, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 106, 110, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121

Offset: 1

Author

David W. Wilson

Keywords

• nonn

Examples

			5 is excluded since (0,1,2,3,4,5) would be a 6-term AP.
10 is excluded since (0,2,4,6,8,10) would be a 6-term AP.
Idem for 15 and 20.
25 is not excluded, but after 25 (1,6,11,16,21,26) would be a 6-AP, and similarly all of 26 through 32 are excluded.
		

Links

• David W. Wilson, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Crossrefs

Summary of increasing sequences avoiding arithmetic progressions of specified lengths (the second of each pair is obtained by adding 1 to the first):

3-term AP: A005836 (>=0), A003278 (>0);

4-term AP: A005839 (>=0), A005837 (>0);

5-term AP: A020654 (>=0), A020655 (>0);

6-term AP: A020656 (>=0), A005838 (>0);

7-term AP: A020657 (>=0), A020658 (>0);

8-term AP: A020659 (>=0), A020660 (>0);

9-term AP: A020661 (>=0), A020662 (>0);

10-term AP: A020663 (>=0), A020664 (>0).

Programs

PARI

A020656(n,show=1,i=0,o=6,u=0)={for(n=1,n,show&&print1(i,",");u+=1<M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2016

Formula

a(n) = A005838(n) - 1.

Extensions

Edited by M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2016

Further edited (with new offset) by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 04 2016