A112416 Next-to-most-significant binary digit of the n-th prime.
0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Offset: 1
Examples
The 9th prime is 23 (in decimal), which is 10111 in binary. So a(9) = 0, the next-to-most significant binary digit of 23.
Programs
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Mathematica
f[n_] := IntegerDigits[Prime@n, 2][[2]]; Array[f, 105] (* Robert G. Wilson v *)
Formula
a(n) = floor((p(n) - 2^m)/2^(m-1)), where p(n) is the n-th prime and m = floor(log(p(n))/log(2)).
Extensions
More terms from Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 24 2006
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