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First 5!-1 terms are identical to A107346, and the 9!-1 terms are identical to A209280. (Updated by M. F. Hasler, Jan 12 2013, Mar 03 2013)

Because of the self-similar nature of A220664, this sequence can be also constructed by picking appropriate terms from there with the auxiliary sequence A220655, cf. formula.

Similarly, differences between successive permutations of {1,2,...,k} in lexicographic order interpreted as decimal numbers, for any k=2..9, produce the first (k!)-1 terms of this sequence. But for k=10 the result is ill-defined, so we can consider the sequence finite, well-defined only for n=1..362879. [See however the following comment. - Editor's note]

In sequence A030299 it is clearly defined how it extends beyond index n = 1!+2!+...+9! = A007489(9), so the sequence A220664 of its first differences is well-defined up to infinity. (The "result" mentioned above is ill defined because the meaning of "interpreted" is not clear.) But the preceding comment is misleading by speaking of "self similar nature", and the sequence definition as "repeating part" is also misleading: If the sequence is defined to be of finite length 9!-1 (thus equal to A209280), then it is indeed infinitely often repeated as a subsequence (of consecutive terms) in A220664 (even when the latter was defined using concatenation for permutations of more than 9 elements, but then not as differences of the terms following 12345678910 where it was expected, but, e.g., as differences of the terms following 10123456789, etc.).

Since A030299 has been defined through a ("simpler") sum rather than concatenation, the nice mathematical properties of A220664, and even more this sequence A219664, persist beyond n=9!. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 12 2013

Correspondingly, gives the positions of those terms in A030299 whose first digit is not 1, as long as the decimal encoding system employed is valid.