Talk:Golomb sequence

Help?[edit]

$\varphi ^{2-\varphi }n^{\varphi -1}$ just gets me irrationals... Robo37 (talk) 11:31, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

unique integer -> smallest integer[edit]

The current definition does not exclude 1,2,2,4,... except for the claim that 3 is the unique integer that satisfies the conditions. See the comment in oeis:A001462 for the correct understanding. Penguian (talk) 07:44, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not so. It “is a non-decreasing integer sequence where a_n is the number of times that n occurs in the sequence, starting with a₁ = 1”. Since it's non-decreasing and a₁ = 1, every integer n > 1 has a_n ≥ 1. Therefore, since a_n is the number of times that n occurs in the sequence, every integer n > 1 must appear, and since it's a non-decreasing sequence they must appear in order. That can be extended into a proof of uniqueness and existence by showing that for n > 2 we have a_n > n. 95.21.126.151 (talk) 06:41, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

for average people like me, this is totally imcomprehensible please fix thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.105.83.19 (talk) 21:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]