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A336527 a(1) = 1; a(2) = 2; for n > 2, a(n) is the least number > a(n-1) whose binary representation is uniquely the concatenation of the binary representations of two distinct earlier terms. 2

%I #10 Jul 27 2020 01:30:14

%S 1,2,5,6,11,14,21,23,26,27,29,30,47,62,85,86,87,90,95,106,107,111,117,

%T 122,125,126,171,174,183,186,187,191,219,234,237,238,239,246,251,254,

%U 341,347,349,351,363,383,426,431,442,447,470,471,474,479,491,495,501

%N a(1) = 1; a(2) = 2; for n > 2, a(n) is the least number > a(n-1) whose binary representation is uniquely the concatenation of the binary representations of two distinct earlier terms.

%C This sequence is inspired by Ulam sequence (A002858).

%H Rémy Sigrist, <a href="/A336527/b336527.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Rémy Sigrist, <a href="/A336527/a336527.gp.txt">PARI program for A336527</a>

%e The first terms, alongside the binary representations of the natural numbers with the corresponding concatenations of distinct smaller terms, are:

%e n a(n) k bin(k) concatenations

%e - ---- -- ------ --------------

%e 1 1 1 1

%e 2 2 2 10

%e 3 11

%e 4 100

%e 3 5 5 101 10|1

%e 4 6 6 110 1|10

%e 7 111

%e 8 1000

%e 9 1001

%e 10 1010

%e 5 11 11 1011 101|1

%e 12 1100

%e 13 1101 1|101, 110|1

%e 6 14 14 1110 1|110

%o (PARI) See Links section.

%Y Cf. A002858, A336528 (decimal variant).

%K nonn,base

%O 1,2

%A _Rémy Sigrist_, Jul 24 2020

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