Explicit formulas for concatenations of arithmetic progressions

01/14/2022
by   Bertrand Teguia Tabuguia, et al.
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The sequence (Sm(n))_n⩾ 0: 1, 12, 123, … formed by concatenating the first n+1 positive integers is often called Smarandache consecutive numbers. We consider the more general case of concatenating arithmetic progressions and establish formulas to compute them. Three types of concatenation are taken into account: the right-concatenation like (Sm(n))_n⩾0 or the concatenation of odd integers: 1, 13, 135, …; the left-concatenation like the reverse of Smarandache consecutive numbers (Smr(n))_n⩾ 0: 1, 21, 321, …; and the concatenation of right-concatenation and left-concatenation like 1, 121, 12321, 1234321,… formed by Sm(n) and Smr(n-1) for n⩾1, with the initial term Sm(0). The resulting formulas enable fast computations of asymptotic terms of these sequences. In particular, we use our implementation in the Computer Algebra System Maple to compute billionth terms of (Sm(n))_n⩾0 and (Smr(n))_n⩾0.

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