func van_eck(n) {
var seen = Hash()
var seq = [0]
var prev = seq[-1]
for k in (1 ..^ n) {
seq << (seen.has(prev) ? (k - seen{prev}) : 0)
seen{prev} = k
prev = seq[-1]
}
seq
}
say van_eck(10)
say van_eck(1000).last(10)
[0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 6]
[4, 7, 30, 25, 67, 225, 488, 0, 10, 136]