A digit-spine sequence

Éric Angelini presented a proposal for three "digit-spine" sequences on his blog here, as well as to the MathFun community. I decided to take on the first one:

s = 1, 10, 2, 0, 3, 26, 9, 119, 532, 4, 6, 896, 118, 34, 15, ...

p = 2, 11, 2, 2, 3, 23, 7, 113, 523, 3, 5, 887, 113, 31, 13, ...

d = 1,  1, 0, 2, 0,  3, 2,   6,   9, 1, 1,   9,   5,  3,  2, ...

Our sought-after sequence is 's'. This is followed by 'p', a sequence of examples (for each, there might be a second such) of primes that are as close to the terms of 's' as possible. Finally 'd', the absolute differences between the respective  's' and 'p' values. Determining 's' is that it must be the lexicographically earliest sequence of distinct nonnegative integers such that its digit-spine (the sequential digits) as well as the digit-spine of 'd' are identical.

For example, the third 'd' being 0 is a consequence of the zero in 10, the second term of 's'. This forces the third term of 's' to be the smallest prime (as it had not already been used). And so on. There will always be integers in 'd' that inform our upcoming values in 's'. And the digits of those values get added to the growing end of our 'd' sequence.

So far, all of our 'd' values are single digits. But there will come a point when concatenating a digit with the next one in line allows for a smaller 's' term than what is available for the single digit. This first happens at term #1622 where a d = 1 dictates s = 1010. The next d digit is 0. Concatenating that 0 with the previous 1 gives us d = 10 at #1622 and this allows the smaller s = 897. This makes me want to know at which term the first three-digit d appears.

Maximilian Hasler helped Éric get the sequence into the OEIS. I have an indexed listing up to one million terms here.

10*987/6+54/3*21

Happy New Year!

Porch visitors

furries

The fire is so delightful

let it snow, let it blow, let it go

Binary complement sequences

On Friday, Joshua Searle posted to the Sequence Fanatics Discussion list a neat procedure: take the binary complement of an integer multiplied by 3. Iterate. For example, starting with 3 we get the binary of 9 (1001), the complement of which (0110) is 6. Continuing, from 6 we get the binary of 18 (10010), the complement of which (01101) is 13. Arriving at zero, we stop.

 0 3
 1 6
 2 13
 3 24
 4 55
 5 90
 6 241
 7 300
 8 123
 9 142
10 85
11 0

Eleven steps to get to zero. The largest integer reached is 300 at step 7. We can shorthand the sequence data for 3 with (11,7,300) [steps to reach zero, steps to reach a maximum, the maximum]. Here are the statistics for integer starts up to 28:

 0 (0,0,0)
 1 (1,0,1)
 2 (2,0,2)
 3 (11,7,300)
 4 (12,8,300)
 5 (1,0,5)
 6 (10,6,300)
 7 (3,1,10)
 8 (4,2,10)
 9 (13,9,300)
10 (2,0,10)
11 (19,15,300)
12 (80,28,328536)
13 (9,5,300)
14 (2,1,21)
15 (15,11,300)
16 (16,12,300)
17 (81,29,328536)
18 (14,10,300)
19 (11,7,300)
20 (12,8,300)
21 (1,0,21)
22 (6,2,72)
23 (83,31,328536)
24 (8,4,300)
25 (73,21,328536)
26 (22,5,661)
27 (79,27,328536)
28 (7572,2962,123130640068522377168864228132316865867184046004226894)

Note the large number of steps and maximum in the last one. Somewhat more surprising are subsequent records. Do all integer starts eventually reach zero? Tom Duff has provided a list of the progressive record number of steps to get to zero:

1: 1

2: 2

3: 11

4: 12

9: 13

11: 19

12: 80

17: 81

23: 83

28: 7572

33: 7573

74: 7574

86: 7578

180: 7580

227: 664475

350: 664882

821: 3180929

3822: 3180930

4187: 3180931

5561: 3181981

6380: 3181988

6398: 3182002

22174: 3182226

22246: 120796790

26494: 556068798

34859: 556068799

49827: 556068871

70772: 556068872

103721: 572086553

104282: 572086610

204953: 1246707529

213884: 1246707552

225095: 1246707555

407354: 1246707602

425720: 87037147316

Update: Tim Peters has been working on extending the outcome of start numbers up to ten million. Here are a few results from his effort:

1671887:   128018188027

6264400:   918217008016

6524469: >2000000000000

7404616:  3306609997544

Mobile upgrade

iPhone 6 on warp drive

Catherine's almost-seven-year-old iPhone 6 was dying/dead so I ordered a replacement.

Starting it up went well enough although I did spend some fifteen minutes prior looking for a paper clip. Only later did I discover the iPhone 13's accompanying SIM-tray ejector tool:

Products with embedded indices

Éric Angelini did a "smallest multiplication" bit yesterday that I felt was worth extending.

     0 0 = 0 * 1
     1 10 = 2 * 5
     2 12 = 3 * 4
     3 132 = 6 * 22
     4 84 = 7 * 12
     5 152 = 8 * 19
     6 126 = 9 * 14
     7 170 = 10 * 17
     8 198 = 11 * 18
     9 195 = 13 * 15
    10 1008 = 16 * 63
    11 1100 = 20 * 55
    12 1218 = 21 * 58
    13 713 = 23 * 31
    14 1416 = 24 * 59
    15 1150 = 25 * 46
    16 1612 = 26 * 62
    17 1728 = 27 * 64
    18 1820 = 28 * 65
    19 1914 = 29 * 66
    20 1020 = 30 * 34
    21 1216 = 32 * 38
    22 1221 = 33 * 37
    23 2345 = 35 * 67
    24 2448 = 36 * 68
    25 2925 = 39 * 75
    26 12600 = 40 * 315
    27 1927 = 41 * 47
    28 2898 = 42 * 69
   ...

The column of indices on the far left is shown embedded (in bold) in their adjacent products. The constraint on the multiplier and multiplicand is that they must be distinct nonnegative integers with the multiplier the smallest such not yet used and the multiplicand the smallest such that yields the embedded index. A chart extending the products is here.

Coyote sighting

Spotted early this morning walking west down our street, just as Bodie and I were leaving for our walk. Already too distant to be distinct by the time I managed the photo, I have added a helpful arrow. At the bottom of the shot are some of the two dozen bags of leaves where our driveway meets the road, ready for today's yard-waste pickup. Resourceful squirrels will tear the paper off the bottom of the bags in order to steal the mostly dry leaves. I've had to re-bag one of them because it was beyond repair.

Paper delivery

Looking east up Denison Rd. W., at the spot where it curves south, I believe I recognize the newspaper delivery driver's tire-tracks in this morning's freshly fallen snow.

Tuva

I've been watching VagaBond for a while now. His videos provide welcome counterpoint to the tragic criminality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and this one, in Tuva, is better than the usual freighthopping fare.