A297146 Numbers having an up-first zigzag pattern in base 10; see Comments.

12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56, 57, 58, 59, 67, 68, 69, 78, 79, 89, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145

Offset: 1

Author

Clark Kimberling, Jan 15 2018

Keywords

• nonn
• easy
• base

Comments

A number n having base-b digits d(m), d(m-1),..., d(0) such that d(i) != d(i+1) for 0 <= i < m shows a zigzag pattern of one or more segments, in the following sense. Writing U for up and D for down, there are two kinds of patterns: U, UD, UDU, UDUD, ... and D, DU, DUD, DUDU, ... . In the former case, we say n has an "up-first zigzag pattern in base b"; in the latter, a "down-first zigzag pattern in base b". Example: 2,4,5,3,0,1,4,2 has segments 2,4,5; 5,3,0; 0,1,4; and 4,2, so that 24530142, with pattern UDUD, has an up-first zigzag pattern in base 10, whereas 4,2,5,3,0,1,4,2 has a down-first pattern. The sequences A297146-A297148 partition the natural numbers. In the following guide, column four, "complement" means the sequence of natural numbers not in the corresponding sequences in columns 2 and 3.

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Base up-first down-first complement

2 (none) A000975 A107907

3 A297124 A297125 A297126

4 A297128 A297129 A297130

5 A297131 A297132 A297133

6 A297134 A297135 A297136

7 A297137 A297138 A297139

8 A297140 A297141 A297142

9 A297143 A297144 A297145

10 A297146 A297147 A297148

Examples

			Base-10 digits of 59898: 5,9,8,9,8, with pattern UDUD, so that 59898 is in the sequence.
		

Crossrefs

Cf. A297147, A297148.

Programs

Mathematica

a[n_, b_] := Sign[Differences[IntegerDigits[n, b]]]; z = 300;
b = 10; t = Table[a[n, b], {n, 1, 10*z}];
u = Select[Range[z], ! MemberQ[t[[#]], 0] && First[t[[#]]] == 1 &]   (* A297146 *)
v = Select[Range[z], ! MemberQ[t[[#]], 0] && First[t[[#]]] == -1 &]  (* A297147 *)
Complement[Range[z], Union[u, v]]  (* A297148 *)