Re: Guess the Permutation

From: Michael Mendelsohn (invalid_at_msgid.michael.mendelsohn.de)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:38:16 +0100

Leroy Quet schrieb:
> Here are the first terms of a sequence which
> forms a permutation of the positive integers.
>
> 1,2,3,6,4,9,5,12,7,16,8,19,10,23,11,26,
> 13,30,14,33,15,36,17,...
>
> Try to guess the rule I used to generate this permutation.

I'll guess yours if you tell me the rule to get
4,3,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,3,....

Cheers
Michael 

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