A202024 Lexicographically earliest positive integer sequence such that no sum of any number of consecutive terms is an integer of the form k^2+k+1 for any positive integer k.

1, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 6, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 6, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2

Offset: 1

Author

John W. Layman, Dec 09 2011

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

After the first 16 terms, ending with ...,4,2,2,2,6, the sequence appears to consist entirely of 2's and 4's, with the spacing between successive 4's being 1,4,2,4,3,4,4,4,5,4,6,4,7,4,8,4,9,4,10,4,..., one bisection of which is 1,2,3,4,...,n,... This has been verified for the first 1000 terms.

Examples

			Integers of the form k^2+k+1 for positive integer k are {3,7,13,21,...}.  Assume that a(1)-a(3) have been determined as {1,1,4}. Then a(4)=1 gives consecutive terms 1,1,4,1 summing to 7, which is prohibited; a(4)=2 gives 1+4+2=7; a(4)=3 gives 4+3=7; but a(4)=4 is OK, giving no sum of consecutive terms equaling 3,7,13,...  Thus a(4)=4.
		

Crossrefs

Cf. A168677.