Given an integer , define the sequence as follows:
Find all values of for which is the first integer appearing in the sequence.
Note: For a real number , is defined as the smallest integer greater or equal to . For example, , .
Given an integer , define the sequence as follows:
Find all values of for which is the first integer appearing in the sequence.
Note: For a real number , is defined as the smallest integer greater or equal to . For example, , .
Let be a sequence defined by:
We need to find all values of such that is the first integer in the sequence.
First, we note that . The sequence will produce an integer at the first appearance of a term when:
Given the sequence rule:
for to be the first integer, and since is not an integer unless is even, we need to control the growth and progression of this sequence in terms of whether and when each becomes an integer.
The crucial value for the sequence to be integer for the first time at is:
such that:
hence:
This implies that the sequence's progression must exert enough multiplications by ceiling of previous numbers for 2006 iterations to truncate back into 1.
Assuming each results in multiplying by until the last , we equate the number of necessary changes needed:
Solving for , we find:
where is some integer representing alternate multiplicative forms when cutting down to define integer steps. Thus:
This expression satisfies the conditions and guarantees that is the first integer in the sequence.