A063050 a(n) = number of 'Reverse and Add!' operations that have to be applied to the n-th term of A063049 in order to obtain a term in the trajectory of 196.
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1
Offset: 0
Examples
394 is a term of A063049. One 'Reverse and Add!' operation applied to 394 leads to a term (887) in the trajectory of 196, so the corresponding term of the present sequence is 1.
Programs
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Mathematica
limit = 10^3; x = NestList[ # + IntegerReverse[#] &, 196, limit]; y = Select[Range[197, 4942], Intersection[NestList[ # + IntegerReverse[#] &, #, limit], x] != {} &]; Table[ Length@NestWhileList[# + IntegerReverse[#] &, y[[i]], ! MemberQ[x, #] &] - 1, {i, Length[y]}] (* Robert Price, Oct 21 2019 *)
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