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"subtract if possible, otherwise add": a(0) = 0; for n > 0, a(n) = a(n − 1) − n if that number is positive and not already in the sequence, otherwise a(n) = a(n − 1) + n, whether or not that number is already in the sequence.
These combinations (subsets) are enumerated by the 1 digits of the set of base 2 numbers counting from 0 to 2 n − 1, where each digit position is an item from the set of n. Given 3 cards numbered 1 to 3, there are 8 distinct combinations ( subsets ), including the empty set :
For example, if you had two types of coins valued at 6 cents and 14 cents, the GCD would equal 2, and there would be no way to combine any number of such coins to produce a sum which was an odd number; additionally, even numbers 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 and 22 (less than m=24) could not be formed, either.
Continuing similarly to search for a 3-combination at position 16 − 15 = 1 one finds c 3 = 3, which uses up the final unit; this establishes = + + (), and the remaining values c i will be the maximal ones with () =, namely c i = i − 1. Thus we have found the 5-combination {8, 6, 3, 1, 0}.
In particular, for a prime number p we have the explicit formula r 4 (p) = 8(p + 1). [2] Some values of r 4 (n) occur infinitely often as r 4 (n) = r 4 (2 m n) whenever n is even. The values of r 4 (n) can be arbitrarily large: indeed, r 4 (n) is infinitely often larger than . [2]
In combinatorics, the twelvefold way is a systematic classification of 12 related enumerative problems concerning two finite sets, which include the classical problems of counting permutations, combinations, multisets, and partitions either of a set or of a number.
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a 1 = 20615674205555510, a 2 = 3794765361567513 (sequence A083216 in the OEIS). In this sequence, the positions at which the numbers in the sequence are divisible by a prime p form an arithmetic progression; for instance, the even numbers in the sequence are the numbers a i where i is congruent to 1 mod 3. The progressions divisible by ...