The Four Number Game

zbMATH Open0033.24307arXiv1109.0051MaRDI QIDQ5789501FDOQ5789501

Authors: Benedict Freedman 

Publication date: 1948

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

Combinatorics

Cited In (4)

• 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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