Generalized Beatty sequences

A well-known result due to S. Beatty is that if α and β are positive irrational numbers satisfying α−1+β−1=1 then each positive integer is to be found in precisely one of the sequences {[kα]}, {[kβ]}(k=1,2,3,…) where [x] denotes the integral part of x. The present note generalizes this result to the...

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Main Author: A. McD. Mercer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1978-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171278000514
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