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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Sequence and conjecture


The 4-month life-span sequence
(4MLS for short)


1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19, 28, 41, 60, ...

Let Sn represent the nth term in the 4MLS sequence.
Then, my conjecture is that any term where n>4, can be found using this formula
Sn = Sn-2 + Sn-3 + Sn-4.




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