# Explore a Klarner-Rado sequence [duplicate]

One of the Klarner-Rado sequences is defined as follows:

• the first term is $$\1\$$
• for all subsequent terms, the following rule applies: if $$\x\$$ is present, so are $$\2x+1\$$ and $$\3x+1\$$
• the sequence is strictly increasing

This is A002977.

The first few terms are:

1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 19, 21, 22, 27, ...


($$\3\$$ is present because it's $$\2\times1+1\$$, $$\4\$$ is present because it's $$\3\times1+1\$$, $$\7\$$ is present because it's $$\2\times3+1\$$, etc.)

Given $$\n\$$, you must return the $$\n\$$th element of the sequence. You may use either 0-based or 1-based indexing. (Please specify your choice in your answer.)

0-indexed example:

input = 10
output = 22


Let's see who can get less bytes...

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• Why is this tagged [javascript]? Is this restricted to it? How is this related to array manipulation and linear algebra? Does "ordered with <" mean "ascending"? – my pronoun is monicareinstate Oct 11 at 11:46
• @user89702 It's not yours, so you can't post it, especially without any attribution. – my pronoun is monicareinstate Oct 11 at 12:30
• However, I do believe this is a rather interesting challenge that would be worth rephrasing properly for Code Golf. There's nothing wrong on posting a challenge about this sequence (which is A002977, btw), but you can't copy from an external site without any authorization or credits. – Arnauld Oct 11 at 12:38
• I've rephrased your post so that it better fits our standard and is not a copy of codewars anymore. Feel free to edit further if needed. – Arnauld Oct 11 at 13:36
• @Graham, if you've taken the time to work up a solution then absolutely post it to the dupe target. If your solution cannot be trivially modified to fit the dupe target then you have a case to reopen this one and you should cast your vote accordingly. – Shaggy Oct 12 at 0:38

# 05AB1E, 15 14 bytes

\$FDx>DŠ+)˜ê}sè


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• Times out for me on TIO for inputs of 14 and above – Graham Oct 11 at 16:29
• @Graham Well this is code golf, not fastest code, so that’s not an issue. – Grimmy Oct 11 at 17:18
• @Graham, for the purposes of code golf, we may assume infinite memory & time. – Shaggy Oct 11 at 18:28
• @Grimy Thanks to you and Shaggy for this information which I had not appreciated. All solutions I have offered in the past have worked efficiently within the capabilities of my machine. This opens up some wacky impractical solutions ;) – Graham Oct 11 at 18:40

# JavaScript (ES6),  53  50 bytes

1-indexed.

n=>(g=k=>n?g(g[k]|!k++?g[n--,k*2]=g[k*3]=k:k):k)


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### Commented

Note: On the first iteration, we have k = [''], which is zero-ish but truthy. By doing !k++, we force k to be coerced to $$\0\$$ right away (and not just before it's incremented), which makes the test work as expected.

n => (                    // n = requested index
g = k =>                // h is a recursive function taking k, starting at 0
n ?                   // if n is not equal to 0:
g(                  //   do a recursive call:
g[k] |            //     if g[k] is defined
!k++ ?            //     or k = 0 (increment k after the test):
g[n--, k * 2] = //       decrement n; set g[k * 2]
g[k * 3] = k    //       and g[k * 3] and pass k
:                 //     else:
k               //       just pass k
)                   //   end of recursive call
:                     // else:
k                   //   stop recursion and return k
)                       // initial call to g with k = [''] (zero-ish)


# JavaScript (ES6), 65 bytes

I thought the '11'[k/x-2] trick was neat, but overall this initial approach is far too long.

0-indexed.

n=>(g=k=>a[n]||g(-~k,a.some(x=>'11'[k/x-2])&&a.push(k+1)))(a=[1])


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### Commented

n => (                  // n = requested index
g = k =>              // g is a recursive function taking k (starting at 1)
a[n] ||             // if a[n] is defined, return it and stop
g(                  // otherwise, do a recursive call:
-~k,              //   with k + 1
a.some(x =>       //   if there exists some x in a[]
'11'[k / x - 2] //   such that k / x is either 2 or 3 ...
)                 //
&& a.push(k + 1)  //   ... then push k + 1 in a[]
)                   // end of recursive call
)(a = [1])              // initial call to g with k = a = [1]


# R, 57 bytes

n=scan();for(i in 1:n)T=sort(unique(c(T,T%o%2:3+1)));T[n]


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1-based index.

# APL+WIN, 54 bytes

Index origin 1

Prompts for the index of required value. Given the response that I received from Grimy and Shaggy that I can assume infinite memory and time then it is trivial to modify this function to work with a series up to the limit of your machine by increasing the value 20 in the function below. This version is limited to index position 1901981

m←1⋄(⍎∊20⍴⊂'m←(0≠1,-2-/m)/m←m[⍋m←m,∊1+m×¨⊂2 3]⋄')⋄m[⎕]


For some reason this function will not run on Dyalog Classic in TIO which is what I usually use.

On my machine 1 => 1, 11 => 22 and 61 => 237 (checked on http://oeis.org)

# JavaScript (ES6), 99 bytes

x=>eval("a=[i=1],a.b=a.includes;while(i++,c=i-1,x)a.b(i)||!a.b(c/2)&&!a.b(c/3)||(a.push(i),x--);c")


# Python 3, 73 bytes

f=lambda n,i=0,k=[1]:(i==n)*k[i]or f(n,i+1,sorted(k+[2*k[i]+1,3*k[i]+1]))


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