This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A307074 #63 Sep 03 2021 20:56:24 %S A307074 1,2,3,5,9,15,27,47,55,95,187,191,375,415,751,831,1503,1663,3007,3327, %T A307074 6639,7039,13279,14079,26559,28159,53119,56319,106239,112639,212479, %U A307074 225279,424959,450559,849919,901119,1699839,1802239,3399679,3604479,6799359,7208959 %N A307074 a(n) is the smallest k such that A307092(k) = n. %C A307074 a(n) is the smallest number k such that exactly n iterations of the mapping x -> x + x^j, where j is a nonnegative integer, are required to reach x=k from x=1 (the j's in each iteration need not be identical). %H A307074 Yancheng Lu, <a href="/A307074/a307074.txt">Pascal program for sequence</a> %H A307074 Minecraft Wiki, <a href="https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Commands/execute">Execute command</a> %e A307074 n |a(n)| maps | exponents %e A307074 ---+----+------------------------------+------------ %e A307074 1 | 1 | 1 | [] %e A307074 2 | 2 | 1 -> 2 | [0] %e A307074 3 | 3 | 1 -> 2 -> 3 | [0,0] %e A307074 4 | 5 | 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 5 | [0,1,0] %e A307074 5 | 9 | 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> 9 | [0,1,1,0] %e A307074 6 | 15 | 1 -> 2 -> 6 -> 7 -> 14 -> 15 | [0,2,0,1,0] %t A307074 (* To get more terms of the sequence, increase terms and maxx, %t A307074 and then set maxi=trunc(lb(maxx)) *) %t A307074 maxi=16;maxx=65536;terms=10; %t A307074 a = NestList[ %t A307074 Function[list, %t A307074 DeleteDuplicates[ %t A307074 Join[list, %t A307074 Flatten[Table[If[# + #^i <= maxx, # + #^i, 1], {i, 0, maxi}] & /@ %t A307074 list]]]], {1}, terms]; %t A307074 b = Prepend[Table[Complement[a[[i + 1]], a[[i]]], {i, Length[a] - 1}], %t A307074 First[a]]; %t A307074 Min /@ b %Y A307074 Cf. A307092. %K A307074 nonn %O A307074 0,2 %A A307074 _Yancheng Lu_, Mar 22 2019