I found a loop in Éric Angelini's "confined" sequence (about which I wrote last month). Term #60614674264 (= 27651356989742597468495745) is a duplicate of term #18563532230. Differences in the lead-up terms are highlighted here:
#18563532226 6912789247435649367123936 #60614674260 6912789247185649367123936
#18563532227 13825578494871298734247872 #60614674261 13825578494371298734247872
#18563532228 13825678494871298734247872 #60614674262 13825678494371298734247872
#18563532229 27651356989742597468495744 #60614674263 27651356988742597468495744
#18563532230 27651356989742597468495745 = #60614674264 27651356989742597468495745
So we have a loop of length 42051142034. The smallest term in the loop appears to be 507434154592, so here is an abridged loop sequence (asterisk denotes the largest term; three twelve-digit local minima are also shown; indices of all these corrected February 29):
0 507434154592
1 1014868309184
2 2029736618368
3 2029736718368
4 4059473436736
5 8118946873472
6 8128946873472
7 16257893746944
8 16257893746945
9 32515787493890
10 65031574987780
11 65031574987880
12 65031574987890
13 130063149975780
14 131631410075780
15 13163141175780
16 13163141275780
17 26326282551560
18 26326282561560
19 52652565123120
20 105305130246240
... ...
17074586421 49512395802029907136051366345193519491458782692496790312698501120
17074586422 495123958020210007136051367345193519491458782692496790312698501220 *
17074586423 4951239580202117136051367345193519491458782692496790312698501230
... ...
25756695203 5007793970328
25756695204 517893970328
25756695205 1035787940656
... ...
25757984145 5097006463136
25757984146 509716463136
25757984147 1019432926272
... ...
27813217917 6806950060736
27813217918 680695160736
27813217919 1361390321472
... ...
42051142014 1128050902650182
42051142015 1228050902650182
42051142016 1238050902650182
42051142017 2476101805300364
42051142018 247610180531364
42051142019 495220361062728
42051142020 495230361062728
42051142021 990460722125456
42051142022 1000460723125456
42051142023 11460723125456
42051142024 12460723125456
42051142025 24921446250912
42051142026 24921456250912
42051142027 49842912501824
42051142028 99685825003648
42051142029 10068582513648
42051142030 1168582513648
42051142031 1268582513648
42051142032 2537165027296
42051142033 5074330054592
42051142034 507434154592
Merci Hans -- and bravo!
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