OEIS is such a wonderful reference. I've had occasions where software I was building needed to compute certain sequences, but I hadn't yet figured out the underlying math. I popped the sequence into OEIS and found the closed form solution. It was a huge productivity boost.
If you think about it, it quantifies emergence of harmonic interference in the superposition of 4 distinct waveforms. If those waveforms happen to have irrational wavelengths (wrt. each other), their combination will never be in the same state twice.
This obviously has implications for pseudorandomness, etc.
I wonder why the title of the sequence isn't set to "Hofstadter's sequence" since that seems to be what it's called according to A030124 when it refers back to this one
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If you think about it, it quantifies emergence of harmonic interference in the superposition of 4 distinct waveforms. If those waveforms happen to have irrational wavelengths (wrt. each other), their combination will never be in the same state twice.
This obviously has implications for pseudorandomness, etc.
Something like
Oh, here it is: https://oeis.org/A035313