A104307 Least maximum of differences between consecutive marks that can occur amongst all possible perfect rulers of length n.
1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 9, 10, 10, 11, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 9, 11, 10, 10, 11, 11, 9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 11, 10
Offset: 1
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There are A103300(13)=6 perfect rulers of length 13: [0,1,2,6,10,13], [0,1,4,5,11,13], [0,1,6,9,11,13] and their mirror images. The first ruler produces the least maximum difference 4=6-2=10-6 between any of its adjacent marks. Therefore a(13)=4.
Links
- F. Schwartau, Y. Schröder, L. Wolf and J. Schoebel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..208 [a(212), a(213) commented out by _Georg Fischer_, Mar 25 2022]
- Peter Luschny, Perfect and Optimal Rulers. A short introduction.
- Hugo Pfoertner, Largest and smallest maximum differences of consecutive marks of perfect rulers.
- F. Schwartau, Y. Schröder, L. Wolf and J. Schoebel, MRLA search results and source code, Nov 6 2020.
- F. Schwartau, Y. Schröder, L. Wolf and J. Schoebel, Large Minimum Redundancy Linear Arrays: Systematic Search of Perfect and Optimal Rulers Exploiting Parallel Processing, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2 (2021), 79-85.
- Index entries for sequences related to perfect rulers.
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