If we can stop talking about elliptical spaces in hypothetically large n-dimensional space and curvature tensors of antitime for a minute, I would like to ask a very mundane, perhaps even vulgar, question, and I will be grateful to anyone who doesn't mind to step down from the usual lofty planes to such a low level of inquiry for a minute.
Why does the Mian-Chowla sequence go 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 21, 31, ... (A5282)? Why couldn't it go, say, 1, 2, 3, ... ? To rule out 3 the only thing I can come up with is making the sequence 0, 1, 2, 4, ... but then I still can't rule out 7 to favor 8. Have I missed something very basic here? |
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