Dio-sequence (Part 1)

Algebra Level pending

A strictly increasing sequence of positive integers a 1 a_1 , a 2 a_2 , a 3 a_3 ,... has the property that for every positive integer k k , the subsequence a 2 k 1 a_{2k-1} , a 2 k a_{2k} , a 2 k + 1 a_{2k+1} is geometric and the subsequence a 2 k a_{2k} , a 2 k + 1 a_{2k+1} , a 2 k + 2 a_{2k+2} is arithmetic. If a 13 = 2016 a_{13}=2016 , compute a 1 a_1 .


The answer is 504.

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