A086342 Smallest number of 1's in binary expansion of any positive multiple of n.

0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 5, 6, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2

Offset: 0

Author

Sean A. Irvine, Sep 02 2003

Keywords

• base
• nonn

Comments

If n is a power of 2 then a(n)=1. All other positive n have a(n)>1. a(n)=2 precisely in cases where some multiple of n is a factor of 2^q+1 for some q.

Examples

			a(n)=2 for n=53, 59, 61, 67, 81, 97 and 101 because n divides 2^k+1 for k=26, 29, 30, 33, 27, 24 and 50, respectively. - _T. D. Noe_, Jul 22 2008
		

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
• Trevor Clokie et al., Computational Aspects of Sturdy and Flimsy Numbers, arxiv preprint arXiv:2002.02731 [cs.DS], February 7 2020.
• Eugen J. Ionascu, Florian Luca, and Thomas Merino, On the average value of the minimal Hamming multiple, arXiv:2412.10839 [math.NT], 2024. See pp. 4, 17.

Crossrefs

Cf. A005360 (flimsy numbers), A125121 (sturdy numbers), A143069 (least multiple).

Programs

PARI

a(n)=if(!n, return(0)); n>>=valuation(n,2); my(o=znorder(Mod(2, n)), v1=Set(powers(Mod(2, n), o)), v=v1, s=1); while(!setsearch(v, Mod(0, n)), v=setbinop((x, y)->x+y, v, v1); s++); s \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 07 2016

Formula

a(2^k-1) = k. - Thomas Dybdahl Ahle, May 01 2013

Extensions

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v, Feb 21 2005

Corrected by T. D. Noe, Jul 22 2008

An incorrect Mathematica program was deleted Aug 01 2008