The Four Number Game

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Authors Benedict Freedman

Publication date 1948

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0051

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Combinatorics

Abstract: Taking the absolute value of consecutive differences of a cyclicly ordered list of integers constitutes a simple dynamical system. For lists of lenght a power of two the process will terminate in all zeros, but examples with arbitarily long "lives" can be generated. For other lenghts the system can be asymptotically cyclic.

Cited in

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• Cycles of differences of integers
• The n-number game for real numbers
• Periods of Ducci sequences and odd solutions to a Pellian equation
• Ducci matrices

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