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An enumeration of all sorted k-tuples containing positive integers.

Begin with the 1-tuple (1), and then reading from the beginning of the list of k-tuples append to the list (n+1) if the k-tuple read is a 1-tuple and for all cases, append the (k+1)-tuples (1,n,...), (2,n,...), ..., (n,n,...), where n is the first element of the k-tuple that was read.

This sequence is a flattening of that process.

Other properties of this sequence are as A229874.

The sequence pattern is an integer, n, followed by all k-tuples containing n, then (k+1)-tuples, etc., up to the n-tuples that have not yet appeared in the sequence. Directly before the integer n+1, therefore, we find the first occurrence of n^n n-tuples which contain the n^n permutations of 1 to n in lexicographic order. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 are degenerate as no tuples precede them; 1 is followed not by a tuple, but by 2, and 2 is followed by the tuple (1, 1), rather than (1, n) as with all other integers.

k-tuple clusters later in the sequence (k

Essentially, at each stage an n-hypercube of elements of size n is completed for each dimension up to the (n-1)-th, building on previous occurrences of the dimension, and then a hypercube for dimension n is begun to be built upon later.

Tuple sizes are in A229895.