Definition:Upper Wythoff Sequence/Definition 2

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Definition

The upper Wythoff sequence is the Beatty sequence on the square $\phi^2$ of the golden section $\phi$.


It starts:

$0, 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, 28, 31, 34, \ldots$

This sequence is A001950 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane (Ed.), 2008).


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Source of Name

This entry was named for Willem Abraham Wythoff.


Historical Note

The upper Wythoff sequence and lower Wythoff sequence were introduced in $1926$ by Samuel Beatty in a much-cited puzzle page: Problems for Solutions: 3173-3180 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 33: p. 159)  www.jstor.org/stable/2300153.

Their names originate from the fact that, in the form of Wythoff pairs, they form the winning combinations of Wythoff's game.


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