Explicit Formulas for Concatenations of Terms of An Arithmetic Progression
We construct explicit formulas for sequences of general terms formed by concatenations of the first n + 1 terms of an arithmetic progression in a natural number base. We highlight the non-holonomic character of these sequences and present our implementation for the sequences A007908 and A000422 on https://oeis.org. The code is available at https://github.com/T3gu1a/Concatenations. These formulas are useful for efficient computations of asymptotic terms in these sequences. In the case of A007908, the formula may help investigating the long-standing search of primes among its terms.
Authors
- Bertrand Teguia Tabuguia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-7077)
- Florian Luca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-4422)
Institutions
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- University of Oxford (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM communications in computer algebra
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3717582.3717594
- Primary Topic
- Mathematics and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation