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A003401 Numbers of edges of regular polygons constructible with ruler (or, more precisely, an unmarked straightedge) and compass.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 24, 30, 32, 34, 40, 48, 51, 60, 64, 68, 80, 85, 96, 102, 120, 128, 136, 160, 170, 192, 204, 240, 255, 256, 257, 272, 320, 340, 384, 408, 480, 510, 512, 514, 544, 640, 680, 768, 771, 816, 960, 1020, 1024, 1028, 1088, 1280, 1285
Offset: 1

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Author

N. J. A. Sloane, R. K. Guy

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Comments

The terms 1 and 2 correspond to degenerate polygons.
These are also the numbers for which phi(n) is a power of 2: A209229(A000010(a(n))) = 1. - Olivier Gérard Feb 15 1999
From Stanislav Sykora, May 02 2016: (Start)
The sequence can be also defined as follows: (i) 1 is a member. (ii) Double of any member is also a member. (iii) If a member is not divisible by a Fermat prime F_k then its product with F_k is also a member. In particular, the powers of 2 (A000079) are a subset and so are the Fermat primes (A019434), which are the only odd prime members.
The definition is too restrictive (though correct): The Georg Mohr - Lorenzo Mascheroni theorem shows that constructibility using a straightedge and a compass is equivalent to using compass only. Moreover, Jean Victor Poncelet has shown that it is also equivalent to using straightedge and a fixed ('rusty') compass. With the work of Jakob Steiner, this became part of the Poncelet-Steiner theorem establishing the equivalence to using straightedge and a fixed circle (with a known center). A further extension by Francesco Severi replaced the availability of a circle with that of a fixed arc, no matter how small (but still with a known center).
Constructibility implies that when m is a member of this sequence, the edge length 2*sin(Pi/m) of an m-gon with circumradius 1 can be written as a finite expression involving only integer numbers, the four basic arithmetic operations, and the square root. (End)
If x,y are terms, and gcd(x,y) is a power of 2 then x*y is also a term. - David James Sycamore, Aug 24 2024

Examples

			34 is a term of this sequence because a circle can be divided into exactly 34 parts. 7 is not.

References

  • Albert H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 183.
  • Allan Clark, Elements of Abstract Algebra, Chapter 4, Galois Theory, Dover Publications, NY 1984, page 124.
  • Duane W. DeTemple, "Carlyle circles and the Lemoine simplicity of polygon constructions." The American Mathematical Monthly 98.2 (1991): 97-108. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 05 2021
  • N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
  • B. L. van der Waerden, Modern Algebra. Unger, NY, 2nd ed., Vols. 1-2, 1953, Vol. 1, p. 187.

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Crossrefs

Subsequence of A295298. - Antti Karttunen, Nov 27 2017
A004729 and A051916 are subsequences. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 20 2010
Cf. A000079, A004169, A000215, A099884, A019434 (Fermat primes).
Edge lengths of other constructible m-gons: A002194 (m=3), A002193 (4), A182007 (5), A101464 (8), A094214 (10), A101263 (12), A272534 (15), A272535 (16), A228787 (17), A272536 (20).
Positions of zeros in A293516 (apart from two initial -1's), and in A336469, positions of ones in A295660 and in A336477 (characteristic function).
Cf. also A046528.
Cf. A000079, A092506.

Programs

  • Haskell
    a003401 n = a003401_list !! (n-1)
a003401_list = map (+ 1) $ elemIndices 1 $ map a209229 a000010_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 31 2012
  • Mathematica
    Select[ Range[ 1300 ], IntegerQ[ Log[ 2, EulerPhi[ # ] ] ]& ] (* Olivier Gérard Feb 15 1999 *)
(* first do *) Needs["DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`"] (* then *) Take[ Union[ Flatten[ NestList[2# &, Times @@@ Table[ UnrankSubset[n, Join[{1}, Table[2^2^i + 1, {i, 0, 4}]]], {n, 63}], 11]]], 60] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 11 2005 *)
nn=10; logs=Log[2,{2,3,5,17,257,65537}]; lim2=Floor[nn/logs[[1]]]; Sort[Reap[Do[z={i,j,k,l,m,n}.logs; If[z<=nn, Sow[2^z]], {i,0,lim2}, {j,0,1}, {k,0,1}, {l,0,1}, {m,0,1}, {n,0,1}]][[2,1]]]
A092506 = {2, 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537}; s = Sort[Times @@@ Subsets@ A092506]; mx = 1300; Union@ Flatten@ Table[(2^n)*s[[i]], {i, 64}, {n, 0, Log2[mx/s[[i]]]}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 28 2014 *)
  • PARI
    for(n=1,10^4,my(t=eulerphi(n));if(t/2^valuation(t,2)==1,print1(n,", "))); \\ Joerg Arndt, Jul 29 2014
  • PARI
    is(n)=n>>=valuation(n,2); if(n<7, return(n>0)); my(k=logint(logint(n,2),2)); if(k>32, my(p=2^2^k+1); if(n%p, return(0)); n/=p; unknown=1; if(n%p==0, return(0)); p=0; if(is(n)==0, 0, "unknown [has large Fermat number in factorization]"), 4294967295%n==0) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 09 2022
  • PARI
    is(n)=n>>=valuation(n,2); 4294967295%n==0 \\ valid for n <= 2^2^33, conjecturally valid for all n; Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 09 2022
  • Python
    from sympy import totient
A003401_list = [n for n in range(1,10**4) if format(totient(n),'b').count('1') == 1]
# Chai Wah Wu, Jan 12 2015

Formula

Terms from 3 onward are computable as numbers such that cototient-of-totient equals the totient-of-totient: Flatten[Position[Table[co[eu[n]]-eu[eu[n]], {n, 1, 10000}], 0]] eu[m]=EulerPhi[m], co[m]=m-eu[m]. - Labos Elemer, Oct 19 2001, clarified by Antti Karttunen, Nov 27 2017
Any product of 2^k and distinct Fermat primes (primes of the form 2^(2^m)+1). - Sergio Pimentel, Apr 30 2004, edited by Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jun 16 2006
If the well-known conjecture that there are only five prime Fermat numbers F_k=2^{2^k}+1, k=0,1,2,3,4 is true, then we have exactly: Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n)= 2*Product_{k=0..4} (1+1/F_k) = 4869735552/1431655765 = 3.40147098978.... - Vladimir Shevelev and T. D. Noe, Dec 01 2010
log a(n) >> sqrt(n); if there are finitely many Fermat primes, then log a(n) ~ k log n for some k. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 23 2015

Extensions

Definition clarified by Bill Gosper. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 14 2020

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