Tag Archives: sequence

The Recamán sequence

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Brent

I recently learned about a really interesting sequence of integers, called the Recamán sequence (it’s sequence A005132 in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences). It is very simple to define, but the resulting complexity shows how powerful self-reference is (for … Continue reading →

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Post without words #5, explained

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Brent

If you stared for a while at the images in my previous post, you probably noticed some patterns, and maybe you even figured out some sort of rule or algorithm behind them. Commenter Yammatak expressed it as “You split it … Continue reading →

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What does “close to” mean?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Brent

Continuing from last time, consider the (normal, decimal) number with an infinite number of 3’s after the decimal point. Now, you probably know that this represents . But why? How do we define what such an infinite sequence of digits … Continue reading →

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Predicting Pi: solution

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Brent

Now for the solution to the question in my previous post, which asked what you can learn about , given the sequence of integers . Nick Johnson commented: Well, the obvious thing one can learn given just |(10^n)r| is the … Continue reading →

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Predicting Pi

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Brent

Inspired by a recent post over at Foxmaths!, here’s an interesting challenge question for you to think about: Suppose I give you the sequence of integers , and so on, where denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to … Continue reading →

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