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A000120 1's-counting sequence: number of 1's in binary expansion of n (or the binary weight of n).

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

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

The binary weight of n is also called Hamming weight of n. [The term "Hamming weight" was named after the American mathematician Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-1998). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 16 2021]
a(n) is also the largest integer such that 2^a(n) divides binomial(2n, n) = A000984(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 27 2002
To construct the sequence, start with 0 and use the rule: If k >= 0 and a(0), a(1), ..., a(2^k-1) are the first 2^k terms, then the next 2^k terms are a(0) + 1, a(1) + 1, ..., a(2^k-1) + 1. - Benoit Cloitre, Jan 30 2003
An example of a fractal sequence. That is, if you omit every other number in the sequence, you get the original sequence. And of course this can be repeated. So if you form the sequence a(0 * 2^n), a(1 * 2^n), a(2 * 2^n), a(3 * 2^n), ... (for any integer n > 0), you get the original sequence. - Christopher.Hills(AT)sepura.co.uk, May 14 2003
The n-th row of Pascal's triangle has 2^k distinct odd binomial coefficients where k = a(n) - 1. - Lekraj Beedassy, May 15 2003
Fixed point of the morphism 0 -> 01, 1 -> 12, 2 -> 23, 3 -> 34, 4 -> 45, etc., starting from a(0) = 0. - Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 24 2006
a(n) is the number of times n appears among the mystery calculator sequences: A005408, A042964, A047566, A115419, A115420, A115421. - Jeremy Gardiner, Jan 25 2006
a(n) is the number of solutions of the Diophantine equation 2^m*k + 2^(m-1) + i = n, where m >= 1, k >= 0, 0 <= i < 2^(m-1); a(5) = 2 because only (m, k, i) = (1, 2, 0) [2^1*2 + 2^0 + 0 = 5] and (m, k, i) = (3, 0, 1) [2^3*0 + 2^2 + 1 = 5] are solutions. - Hieronymus Fischer, Jan 31 2006
The first appearance of k, k >= 0, is at a(2^k-1). - Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 27 2006
Sequence is given by T^(infinity)(0) where T is the operator transforming any word w = w(1)w(2)...w(m) into T(w) = w(1)(w(1)+1)w(2)(w(2)+1)...w(m)(w(m)+1). I.e., T(0) = 01, T(01) = 0112, T(0112) = 01121223. - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 04 2009
For n >= 2, the minimal k for which a(k(2^n-1)) is not multiple of n is 2^n + 3. - Vladimir Shevelev, Jun 05 2009
Triangle inequality: a(k+m) <= a(k) + a(m). Equality holds if and only if C(k+m, m) is odd. - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 19 2009
a(k*m) <= a(k) * a(m). - Robert Israel, Sep 03 2023
The number of occurrences of value k in the first 2^n terms of the sequence is equal to binomial(n, k), and also equal to the sum of the first n - k + 1 terms of column k in the array A071919. Example with k = 2, n = 7: there are 21 = binomial(7,2) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 2's in a(0) to a(2^7-1). - Brent Spillner (spillner(AT)acm.org), Sep 01 2010, simplified by R. J. Mathar, Jan 13 2017
Let m be the number of parts in the listing of the compositions of n as lists of parts in lexicographic order, a(k) = n - length(composition(k)) for all k < 2^n and all n (see example); A007895 gives the equivalent for compositions into odd parts. - Joerg Arndt, Nov 09 2012
From Daniel Forgues, Mar 13 2015: (Start)
Just tally up row k (binary weight equal k) from 0 to 2^n - 1 to get the binomial coefficient C(n,k). (See A007318.)
     0   1       3               7                              15
  0: O | . | .   . | .   .   .   . | .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . |
  1:   | O | O   . | O   .   .   . | O   .   .   .   .   .   .   . |
  2:   |   |     O |     O   O   . |     O   O   .   O   .   .   . |
  3:   |   |       |             O |             O       O   O   . |
  4:   |   |       |               |                             O |
Due to its fractal nature, the sequence is quite interesting to listen to.
(End)
The binary weight of n is a particular case of the digit sum (base b) of n. - Daniel Forgues, Mar 13 2015
The mean of the first n terms is 1 less than the mean of [a(n+1),...,a(2n)], which is also the mean of [a(n+2),...,a(2n+1)]. - Christian Perfect, Apr 02 2015
a(n) is also the largest part of the integer partition having viabin number n. The viabin number of an integer partition is defined in the following way. Consider the southeast border of the Ferrers board of the integer partition and consider the binary number obtained by replacing each east step with 1 and each north step, except the last one, with 0. The corresponding decimal form is, by definition, the viabin number of the given integer partition. "Viabin" is coined from "via binary". For example, consider the integer partition [2, 2, 2, 1]. The southeast border of its Ferrers board yields 10100, leading to the viabin number 20. - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 20 2017
a(n) is also known as the population count of the binary representation of n. - Chai Wah Wu, May 19 2020

			Using the formula a(n) = a(floor(n / floor_pow4(n))) + a(n mod floor_pow4(n)):
  a(4) = a(1) + a(0) = 1,
  a(8) = a(2) + a(0) = 1,
  a(13) = a(3) + a(1) = 2 + 1 = 3,
  a(23) = a(1) + a(7) = 1 + a(1) + a(3) = 1 + 1 + 2 = 4.
_Gary W. Adamson_ points out (Jun 03 2009) that this can be written as a triangle:
  0,
  1,
  1,2,
  1,2,2,3,
  1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,
  1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,
  1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,
  1,2,2,3,2,3,...
where the rows converge to A063787.
From _Joerg Arndt_, Nov 09 2012: (Start)
Connection to the compositions of n as lists of parts (see comment):
[ #]:   a(n)  composition
[ 0]:   [0]   1 1 1 1 1
[ 1]:   [1]   1 1 1 2
[ 2]:   [1]   1 1 2 1
[ 3]:   [2]   1 1 3
[ 4]:   [1]   1 2 1 1
[ 5]:   [2]   1 2 2
[ 6]:   [2]   1 3 1
[ 7]:   [3]   1 4
[ 8]:   [1]   2 1 1 1
[ 9]:   [2]   2 1 2
[10]:   [2]   2 2 1
[11]:   [3]   2 3
[12]:   [2]   3 1 1
[13]:   [3]   3 2
[14]:   [3]   4 1
[15]:   [4]   5
(End)

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Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n
Index entries for Colombian or self numbers and related sequences
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings

The basic sequences concerning the binary expansion of n are this one, A000788, A000069, A001969, A023416, A059015, A007088.
Partial sums see A000788. For run lengths see A131534. See also A001792, A010062.
Number of 0's in n: A023416 and A080791.
a(n) = n - A011371(n).
Sum of digits of n written in bases 2-16: this sequence, A053735, A053737, A053824, A053827, A053828, A053829, A053830, A007953, A053831, A053832, A053833, A053834, A053835, A053836.
Cf. A001620, A344716, A007814, A063787.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(3, 4) (see A135416).
Cf. A055640, A055641, A102669-A102685, A117804, A122840, A122841, A160093, A160094, A196563, A196564 (for base 10).
Cf. A230952 (boustrophedon transform).
Cf. A070939 (length of binary representation of n).

Fortran
```
c See link in A139351
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import Data.Bits (Bits, popCount)
a000120 :: (Integral t, Bits t) => t -> Int
a000120 = popCount
a000120_list = 0 : c [1] where c (x:xs) = x : c (xs ++ [x,x+1])
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 26 2013, Feb 19 2012, Jun 16 2011, Mar 07 2011

a000120 = concat r
    where r = [0] : (map.map) (+1) (scanl1 (++) r)
-- Luke Palmer, Feb 16 2014

[Multiplicity(Intseq(n, 2), 1): n in [0..104]]; // Marius A. Burtea, Jan 22 2020

[&+Intseq(n, 2):n in [0..104]]; // Marius A. Burtea, Jan 22 2020

A000120 := proc(n) local w,m,i; w := 0; m := n; while m > 0 do i := m mod 2; w := w+i; m := (m-i)/2; od; w; end: wt := A000120;
A000120 := n -> add(i, i=convert(n,base,2)): # Peter Luschny, Feb 03 2011
with(Bits): p:=n->ilog2(n-And(n,n-1)): seq(p(binomial(2*n,n)),n=0..200) # Gary Detlefs, Jan 27 2019

Table[DigitCount[n, 2, 1], {n, 0, 105}]
Nest[Flatten[# /. # -> {#, # + 1}] &, {0}, 7] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Sep 27 2011 *)
Table[Plus @@ IntegerDigits[n, 2], {n, 0, 104}]
Nest[Join[#, # + 1] &, {0}, 7] (* IWABUCHI Yu(u)ki, Jul 19 2012 *)
Log[2, Nest[Join[#, 2#] &, {1}, 14]] (* gives 2^14 term, Carlos Alves, Mar 30 2014 *)

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, 2*n - valuation((2*n)!, 2))};

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, subst(Pol(binary(n)), x ,1))};

{a(n) = if( n<1, 0, a(n\2) + n%2)}; /* Michael Somos, Mar 06 2004 */

a(n)=my(v=binary(n));sum(i=1,#v,v[i]) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 24 2011

a(n)=norml2(binary(n)) \\ better use {A000120=hammingweight}. - M. F. Hasler, Oct 09 2012, edited Feb 27 2020

a(n)=hammingweight(n) \\ Michel Marcus, Oct 19 2013
(Common Lisp) (defun floor-to-power (n pow) (declare (fixnum pow)) (expt pow (floor (log n pow)))) (defun enabled-bits (n) (if (< n 4) (n-th n (list 0 1 1 2)) (+ (enabled-bits (floor (/ n (floor-to-power n 4)))) (enabled-bits (mod n (floor-to-power n 4)))))) ; Stephen K. Touset (stephen(AT)touset.org), Apr 04 2007

def A000120(n): return bin(n).count('1') # Chai Wah Wu, Sep 03 2014

import numpy as np
A000120 = np.array([0], dtype="uint8")
for bitrange in range(25): A000120 = np.append(A000120, np.add(A000120, 1))
print([A000120[n] for n in range(0, 105)]) # Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Nov 07 2022

def A000120(n): return n.bit_count() # Requires Python 3.10 or higher. - Pontus von Brömssen, Nov 08 2022

Python
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# Also see links.
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def A000120(n):
    if n <= 1: return Integer(n)
    return A000120(n//2) + n%2
[A000120(n) for n in range(105)]  # Peter Luschny, Nov 19 2012

def A000120(n) : return sum(n.digits(2)) # Eric M. Schmidt, Apr 26 2013

(0 to 127).map(Integer.bitCount()) // _Alonso del Arte, Mar 05 2019

a(0) = 0, a(2*n) = a(n), a(2*n+1) = a(n) + 1.
a(0) = 0, a(2^i) = 1; otherwise if n = 2^i + j with 0 < j < 2^i, a(n) = a(j) + 1.
G.f.: Product_{k >= 0} (1 + y*x^(2^k)) = Sum_{n >= 0} y^a(n)*x^n. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 04 2009
a(n) = a(n-1) + 1 - A007814(n) = log_2(A001316(n)) = 2n - A005187(n) = A070939(n) - A023416(n). - Henry Bottomley, Apr 04 2001; corrected by Ralf Stephan, Apr 15 2002
a(n) = log_2(A000984(n)/A001790(n)). - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 02 2002
For n > 0, a(n) = n - Sum_{k=1..n} A007814(k). - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 19 2002
a(n) = n - Sum_{k>=1} floor(n/2^k) = n - A011371(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Dec 19 2002
G.f.: (1/(1-x)) * Sum_{k>=0} x^(2^k)/(1+x^(2^k)). - Ralf Stephan, Apr 19 2003
a(0) = 0, a(n) = a(n - 2^floor(log_2(n))) + 1. Examples: a(6) = a(6 - 2^2) + 1 = a(2) + 1 = a(2 - 2^1) + 1 + 1 = a(0) + 2 = 2; a(101) = a(101 - 2^6) + 1 = a(37) + 1 = a(37 - 2^5) + 2 = a(5 - 2^2) + 3 = a(1 - 2^0) + 4 = a(0) + 4 = 4; a(6275) = a(6275 - 2^12) + 1 = a(2179 - 2^11) + 2 = a(131 - 2^7) + 3 = a(3 - 2^1) + 4 = a(1 - 2^0) + 5 = 5; a(4129) = a(4129 - 2^12) + 1 = a(33 - 2^5) + 2 = a(1 - 2^0) + 3 = 3. - Hieronymus Fischer, Jan 22 2006
A fixed point of the mapping 0 -> 01, 1 -> 12, 2 -> 23, 3 -> 34, 4 -> 45, ... With f(i) = floor(n/2^i), a(n) is the number of odd numbers in the sequence f(0), f(1), f(2), f(3), f(4), f(5), ... - Philippe Deléham, Jan 04 2004
When read mod 2 gives the Morse-Thue sequence A010060.
Let floor_pow4(n) denote n rounded down to the next power of four, floor_pow4(n) = 4 ^ floor(log4 n). Then a(0) = 0, a(1) = 1, a(2) = 1, a(3) = 2, a(n) = a(floor(n / floor_pow4(n))) + a(n % floor_pow4(n)). - Stephen K. Touset (stephen(AT)touset.org), Apr 04 2007
a(n) = n - Sum_{k=2..n} Sum_{j|n, j >= 2} (floor(log_2(j)) - floor(log_2(j-1))). - Hieronymus Fischer, Jun 18 2007
a(n) = A138530(n, 2) for n > 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 26 2008
a(A077436(n)) = A159918(A077436(n)); a(A000290(n)) = A159918(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 25 2009
a(n) = A063787(n) - A007814(n). - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 04 2009
a(n) = A007814(C(2n, n)) = 1 + A007814(C(2n-1, n)). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 20 2009
For odd m >= 1, a((4^m-1)/3) = a((2^m+1)/3) + (m-1)/2 (mod 2). - Vladimir Shevelev, Sep 03 2010
a(n) - a(n-1) = { 1 - a(n-1) if and only if A007814(n) = a(n-1), 1 if and only if A007814(n) = 0, -1 for all other A007814(n) }. - Brent Spillner (spillner(AT)acm.org), Sep 01 2010
a(A001317(n)) = 2^a(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Oct 25 2010
a(n) = A139351(n) + A139352(n) = Sum_k {A030308(n, k)}. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 14 2011
From Hieronymus Fischer, Jun 10 2012: (Start)
a(n) = Sum_{j = 1..m+1} (floor(n/2^j + 1/2) - floor(n/2^j)), where m = floor(log_2(n)).
General formulas for the number of digits >= d in the base p representation of n, where 1 <= d < p: a(n) = Sum_{j = 1..m+1} (floor(n/p^j + (p-d)/p) - floor(n/p^j)), where m=floor(log_p(n)); g.f.: g(x) = (1/(1-x))*Sum_{j>=0} (x^(d*p^j) - x^(p*p^j))/(1-x^(p*p^j)). (End)
a(n) = A213629(n, 1) for n > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 04 2012
a(n) = A240857(n,n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 14 2014
a(n) = log_2(C(2*n,n) - (C(2*n,n) AND C(2*n,n)-1)). - Gary Detlefs, Jul 10 2014
Sum_{n >= 1} a(n)/2n(2n+1) = (gamma + log(4/Pi))/2 = A344716, where gamma is Euler's constant A001620; see Sondow 2005, 2010 and Allouche, Shallit, Sondow 2007. - Jonathan Sondow, Mar 21 2015
For any integer base b >= 2, the sum of digits s_b(n) of expansion base b of n is the solution of this recurrence relation: s_b(n) = 0 if n = 0 and s_b(n) = s_b(floor(n/b)) + (n mod b). Thus, a(n) satisfies: a(n) = 0 if n = 0 and a(n) = a(floor(n/2)) + (n mod 2). This easily yields a(n) = Sum_{i = 0..floor(log_2(n))} (floor(n/2^i) mod 2). From that one can compute a(n) = n - Sum_{i = 1..floor(log_2(n))} floor(n/2^i). - Marek A. Suchenek, Mar 31 2016
Sum_{k>=1} a(k)/2^k = 2 * Sum_{k >= 0} 1/(2^(2^k)+1) = 2 * A051158. - Amiram Eldar, May 15 2020
Sum_{k>=1} a(k)/(k*(k+1)) = A016627 = log(4). - Bernard Schott, Sep 16 2020
a(m*(2^n-1)) >= n. Equality holds when 2^n-1 >= A000265(m), but also in some other cases, e.g., a(11*(2^2-1)) = 2 and a(19*(2^3-1)) = 3. - Pontus von Brömssen, Dec 13 2020
G.f.: A(x) satisfies A(x) = (1+x)*A(x^2) + x/(1-x^2). - Akshat Kumar, Nov 04 2023

A007814 Exponent of highest power of 2 dividing n, a.k.a. the binary carry sequence, the ruler sequence, or the 2-adic valuation of n.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

Offset: 1

John Tromp, Dec 11 1996

This sequence is an exception to my usual rule that when every other term of a sequence is 0 then those 0's should be omitted. In this case we would get A001511. - N. J. A. Sloane
To construct the sequence: start with 0,1, concatenate to get 0,1,0,1. Add + 1 to last term gives 0,1,0,2. Concatenate those 4 terms to get 0,1,0,2,0,1,0,2. Add + 1 to last term etc. - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 06 2003
The sequence is invariant under the following two transformations: increment every element by one (1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, ...), put a zero in front and between adjacent elements (0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 4, ...). The intermediate result is A001511. - Ralf Hinze (ralf(AT)informatik.uni-bonn.de), Aug 26 2003
Fixed point of the morphism 0->01, 1->02, 2->03, 3->04, ..., n->0(n+1), ..., starting from a(1) = 0. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 15 2004
Fixed point of the morphism 0->010, 1->2, 2->3, ..., n->(n+1), .... - Joerg Arndt, Apr 29 2014
a(n) is also the number of times to repeat a step on an even number in the hailstone sequence referenced in the Collatz conjecture. - Alex T. Flood (whiteangelsgrace(AT)gmail.com), Sep 22 2006
Let F(n) be the n-th Fermat number (A000215). Then F(a(r-1)) divides F(n)+2^k for r = k mod 2^n and r != 1. - T. D. Noe, Jul 12 2007
The following relation holds: 2^A007814(n)*(2*A025480(n-1)+1) = A001477(n) = n. (See functions hd, tl and cons in [Paul Tarau 2009].)
a(n) is the number of 0's at the end of n when n is written in base 2.
a(n+1) is the number of 1's at the end of n when n is written in base 2. - M. F. Hasler, Aug 25 2012
Shows which bit to flip when creating the binary reflected Gray code (bits are numbered from the right, offset is 0). That is, A003188(n) XOR A003188(n+1) == 2^A007814(n). - Russ Cox, Dec 04 2010
The sequence is squarefree (in the sense of not containing any subsequence of the form XX) [Allouche and Shallit]. Of course it contains individual terms that are squares (such as 4). - Comment expanded by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 28 2019
a(n) is the number of zero coefficients in the n-th Stern polynomial, A125184. - T. D. Noe, Mar 01 2011
Lemma: For n < m with r = a(n) = a(m) there exists n < k < m with a(k) > r. Proof: We have n=b2^r and m=c2^r with b < c both odd; choose an even i between them; now a(i2^r) > r and n < i2^r < m. QED. Corollary: Every finite run of consecutive integers has a unique maximum 2-adic valuation. - Jason Kimberley, Sep 09 2011
a(n-2) is the 2-adic valuation of A000166(n) for n >= 2. - Joerg Arndt, Sep 06 2014
a(n) = number of 1's in the partition having Heinz number n. We define the Heinz number of a partition p = [p_1, p_2, ..., p_r] as Product_{j=1..r} p_j-th prime (concept used by Alois P. Heinz in A215366 as an "encoding" of a partition). For example, for the partition [1, 1, 2, 4, 10] we get 2*2*3*7*29 = 2436. Example: a(24)=3; indeed, the partition having Heinz number 24 = 2*2*2*3  is [1,1,1,2]. - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 04 2015
a(n+1) is the difference between the two largest parts in the integer partition having viabin number n (0 is assumed to be a part). Example: a(20) = 2. Indeed, we have 19 = 10011_2, leading to the Ferrers board of the partition [3,1,1]. For the definition of viabin number see the comment in A290253. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 24 2017
Apart from being squarefree, as noted above, the sequence has the property that every consecutive subsequence contains at least one number an odd number of times. - Jon Richfield, Dec 20 2018
a(n+1) is the 2-adic valuation of Sum_{e=0..n} u^e = (1 + u + u^2 + ... + u^n), for any u of the form 4k+1 (A016813). - Antti Karttunen, Aug 15 2020
{a(n)} represents the "first black hat" strategy for the game of countably infinitely many hats, with a probability of success of 1/3; cf. the Numberphile link below. - Frederic Ruget, Jun 14 2021
a(n) is the least nonnegative integer k for which there does not exist i+j=n and a(i)=a(j)=k (cf. A322523). - Rémy Sigrist and Jianing Song, Aug 23 2022

			2^3 divides 24, so a(24)=3.
From _Omar E. Pol_, Jun 12 2009: (Start)
Triangle begins:
  0;
  1,0;
  2,0,1,0;
  3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  5,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  6,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,5,0,1,0,2,...
(End)

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003, p. 27.
K. Atanassov, On the 37th and the 38th Smarandache Problems, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Sophia, Bulgaria, Vol. 5 (1999), No. 2, 83-85.
Michel Rigo, Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems, 2 vols., Wiley, 2014. Mentions this sequence - see "List of Sequences" in Vol. 2.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Joerg Arndt, Subset-lex: did we miss an order?, arXiv:1405.6503 [math.CO], 2014.
K. Atanassov, On Some of Smarandache's Problems
Alain Connes, Caterina Consani, and Henri Moscovici, Zeta zeros and prolate wave operators, arXiv:2310.18423 [math.NT], 2023.
Dario T. de Castro, P-adic Order of Positive Integers via Binomial Coefficients, INTEGERS, Electronic J. of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 22, Paper A61, 2022.
Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Jeffrey Shallit, Avoiding Squares and Overlaps Over the Natural Numbers, (2009) Discrete Math., 309 (2009), 6245-6254.
Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Jeffrey Shallit, Avoiding Squares and Overlaps Over the Natural Numbers, arXiv:0901.1397 [math.CO], 2009.
M. Hassani, Equations and inequalities involving v_p(n!), J. Inequ. Pure Appl. Math. 6 (2005) vol. 2, #29.
A. M. Hinz, S. Klavžar, U. Milutinović, and C. Petr, The Tower of Hanoi - Myths and Maths, Birkhäuser 2013. See page 61. Book's website
R. Hinze, Concrete stream calculus: An extended study, J. Funct. Progr. 20 (5-6) (2010) 463-535, doi, Section 3.2.3.
Clark Kimberling, Affinely recursive sets and orderings of languages, Discrete Math., 274 (2004), 147-160.
Francis Laclé, 2-adic parity explorations of the 3n+ 1 problem, hal-03201180v2 [cs.DM], 2021.
Shuo Li, Palindromic length sequence of the ruler sequence and of the period-doubling sequence, arXiv:2007.08317 [math.CO], 2020.
Nicolas Mallet, Trial for a proof of the Syracuse conjecture, arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05039 [math.GM], 2015.
S. Mazzanti, Plain Bases for Classes of Primitive Recursive Functions, Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 48 (2002).
Matthew Andres Moreno, Luis Zaman, and Emily Dolson, Structured Downsampling for Fast, Memory-efficient Curation of Online Data Streams, arXiv:2409.06199 [cs.DS], 2024. See p. 5.
Sascha Mücke, Coding Nuggets Faster QUBO Brute-Force Solving, TU Dortmund Univ. (Germany 2023).
S. Northshield, An Analogue of Stern's Sequence for Z[sqrt(2)], Journal of Integer Sequences, 18 (2015), #15.11.6.
Numberphile, Hat Problems - Numberphile
Giovanni Pighizzini, Limited Automata: Properties, Complexity and Variants, International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS 2019) Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Vol. 11612) Springer, Cham, 57-73.
Simon Plouffe, On the values of the functions ... [zeta and Gamma] ..., arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7195 [math.NT], 2013.
A. Postnikov (MIT) and B. Sagan, What power of two divides a weighted Catalan number?, arXiv:math/0601339 [math.CO], 2006.
Lara Pudwell and Eric Rowland, Avoiding fractional powers over the natural numbers, arXiv:1510.02807 [math.CO] (2015). Also Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 25(2) (2018), #P2.27. See Section 2.
Ville Salo, Decidability and Universality of Quasiminimal Subshifts, arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6644 [math.DS], 2014.
Vladimir Shevelev, Several results on sequences which are similar to the positive integers, arXiv:0904.2101 [math.NT], 2014.
F. Smarandache, Only Problems, Not Solutions!.
Ralf Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences ...
Ralf Stephan, Table of generating functions
Paul Tarau, A Groupoid of Isomorphic Data Transformations. Calculemus 2009, 8th International Conference, MKM 2009, pp. 170-185, Springer, LNAI 5625.
P. M. B. Vitanyi, An optimal simulation of counter machines, SIAM J. Comput, 14:1(1985), 1-33.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Binary, Binary Carry Sequence, and Double-Free Set.
Wikipedia, P-adic order.
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n

Cf. A011371 (partial sums), A094267 (first differences), A001511 (bisection), A346070 (mod 4).
Bisection of A050605 and |A088705|. Pairwise sums are A050603 and A136480. Difference of A285406 and A281264.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(1, 4) (see A135416). Cf. A053398(1,n). Column/row 1 of table A050602.
Cf. A007949 (3-adic), A235127 (4-adic), A112765 (5-adic), A122841 (6-adic), A214411 (7-adic), A244413 (8-adic), A122840 (10-adic).
Cf. A000079, A002487, A006519, A051064, A055457, A063787, A215366, A220466.
Cf. A086463 (Dgf at s=2).

a007814 n = if m == 0 then 1 + a007814 n' else 0
            where (n', m) = divMod n 2
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 05 2013, May 14 2011, Apr 08 2011

a007814 n | odd n = 0 | otherwise = 1 + a007814 (n `div` 2)
--  Walt Rorie-Baety, Mar 22 2013

[Valuation(n, 2): n in [1..120]]; // Bruno Berselli, Aug 05 2013

ord := proc(n) local i,j; if n=0 then return 0; fi; i:=0; j:=n; while j mod 2 <> 1 do i:=i+1; j:=j/2; od: i; end proc: seq(ord(n), n=1..111);
A007814 := n -> padic[ordp](n,2): seq(A007814(n), n=1..111); # Peter Luschny, Nov 26 2010

Table[IntegerExponent[n, 2], {n, 64}] (* Eric W. Weisstein *)
IntegerExponent[Range[64], 2] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Feb 01 2024 *)
p=2; Array[ If[ Mod[ #, p ]==0, Select[ FactorInteger[ # ], Function[ q, q[ [ 1 ] ]==p ], 1 ][ [ 1, 2 ] ], 0 ]&, 96 ]
DigitCount[BitXor[x, x - 1], 2, 1] - 1; a different version based on the same concept: Floor[Log[2, BitXor[x, x - 1]]] (* Jaume Simon Gispert (jaume(AT)nuem.com), Aug 29 2004 *)
Nest[Join[ #, ReplacePart[ #, Length[ # ] -> Last[ # ] + 1]] &, {0, 1}, 5] (* N. J. Gunther, May 23 2009 *)
Nest[ Flatten[# /. a_Integer -> {0, a + 1}] &, {0}, 7] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 17 2011 *)

PARI
```
A007814(n)=valuation(n,2);
```

import math
def a(n): return int(math.log(n - (n & n - 1), 2)) # Indranil Ghosh, Apr 18 2017

def A007814(n): return (~n & n-1).bit_length() # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 01 2022

sapply(1:100,function(x) sum(gmp::factorize(x)==2)) # Christian N. K. Anderson, Jun 20 2013

(define (A007814 n) (let loop ((n n) (e 0)) (if (odd? n) e (loop (/ n 2) (+ 1 e))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Oct 06 2017

a(n) = A001511(n) - 1.
a(2*n) = A050603(2*n) = A001511(n).
a(n) = A091090(n-1) + A036987(n-1) - 1.
a(n) = 0 if n is odd, otherwise 1 + a(n/2). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 11 2001
Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) = n - A000120(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 19 2002
G.f.: A(x) = Sum_{k>=1} x^(2^k)/(1-x^(2^k)). - Ralf Stephan, Apr 10 2002
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = A(x^2) + x^2/(1-x^2). A(x) = B(x^2) = B(x) - x/(1-x), where B(x) is the g.f. for A001151. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Feb 09 2006
Totally additive with a(p) = 1 if p = 2, 0 otherwise.
Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s)/(2^s-1). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 17 2007
Define 0 <= k <= 2^n - 1; binary: k = b(0) + 2*b(1) + 4*b(2) + ... + 2^(n-1)*b(n-1); where b(x) are 0 or 1 for 0 <= x <= n - 1; define c(x) = 1 - b(x) for 0 <= x <= n - 1; Then: a(k) = c(0) + c(0)*c(1) + c(0)*c(1)*c(2) + ... + c(0)*c(1)...c(n-1); a(k+1) = b(0) + b(0)*b(1) + b(0)*b(1)*b(2) + ... + b(0)*b(1)...b(n-1). - Arie Werksma (werksma(AT)tiscali.nl), May 10 2008
a(n) = floor(A002487(n - 1) / A002487(n)). - Reikku Kulon, Oct 05 2008
Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^A000120(n-k)*a(k) = (-1)^(A000120(n)-1)*(A000120(n) - A000035(n)). - Vladimir Shevelev, Mar 17 2009
a(A001147(n) + A057077(n-1)) = a(2*n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Mar 21 2009
For n>=1, a(A004760(n+1)) = a(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 15 2009
2^(a(n)) = A006519(n). - Philippe Deléham, Apr 22 2009
a(n) = A063787(n) - A000120(n). - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 04 2009
a(C(n,k)) = A000120(k) + A000120(n-k) - A000120(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 19 2009
a(n!) = n - A000120(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 20 2009
v_{2}(n) = Sum_{r>=1} (r / 2^(r+1)) Sum_{k=0..2^(r+1)-1} e^(2(k*Pi*i(n+2^r))/(2^(r+1))). - A. Neves, Sep 28 2010, corrected Oct 04 2010
a(n) mod 2 = A096268(n-1). - Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 18 2012
a(A005408(n)) = 1; a(A016825(n)) = 3; A017113(a(n)) = 5; A051062(a(n)) = 7; a(n) = (A037227(n)-1)/2. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 30 2012
a((2*n-1)*2^p) = p, p >= 0 and n >= 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, Feb 04 2013
a(n) = A067255(n,1). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 11 2013
a(n) = log_2(n - (n AND n-1)). - Gary Detlefs, Jun 13 2014
a(n) = 1 + A000120(n-1) - A000120(n), where A000120 is the Hamming weight function. - Stanislav Sykora, Jul 14 2014
A053398(n,k) = a(A003986(n-1,k-1)+1); a(n) = A053398(n,1) = A053398(n,n) = A053398(2*n-1,n) = Min_{k=1..n} A053398(n,k). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 04 2014
a((2*x-1)*2^n) = a((2*y-1)*2^n) for positive n, x and y. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Aug 04 2016
a(n) = A285406(n) - A281264(n). - Ralf Steiner, Apr 18 2017
a(n) = A000005(n)/(A000005(2*n) - A000005(n)) - 1. - conjectured by Velin Yanev, Jun 30 2017, proved by Nicholas Stearns, Sep 11 2017
Equivalently to above formula, a(n) = A183063(n) / A001227(n), i.e., a(n) is the number of even divisors of n divided by number of odd divisors of n. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Oct 31 2018
a(n)*(n mod 4) = 2*floor(((n+1) mod 4)/3). - Gary Detlefs, Feb 16 2019
Asymptotic mean: lim_{m->oo} (1/m) * Sum_{k=1..m} a(k) = 1. - Amiram Eldar, Jul 11 2020
a(n) = 2*Sum_{j=1..floor(log_2(n))} frac(binomial(n, 2^j)*2^(j-1)/n). - Dario T. de Castro, Jul 08 2022
a(n) = A070939(n) - A070939(A030101(n)). - Andrew T. Porter, Dec 16 2022
a(n) = floor((gcd(n, 2^n)^(n+1) mod (2^(n+1)-1)^2)/(2^(n+1)-1)) (see Lemma 3.4 from Mazzanti's 2002 article). - Lorenzo Sauras Altuzarra, Mar 10 2024
a(n) = 1 - A088705(n). - Chai Wah Wu, Sep 18 2024

Formula index adapted to the offset of A025480 by R. J. Mathar, Jul 20 2010

Edited by Ralf Stephan, Feb 08 2014

A070939 Length of binary representation of n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, May 18 2002

Zero is assumed to be represented as 0.
For n>1, n appears 2^(n-1) times. - Lekraj Beedassy, Apr 12 2006
a(n) is the permanent of the n X n 0-1 matrix whose (i,j) entry is 1 iff i=1 or i=j or i=2*j. For example, a(4)=3 is per([[1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0, 1]]). - David Callan, Jun 07 2006
a(n) is the number of different contiguous palindromic bit patterns in the binary representation of n; for examples, for 5=101_2 the bit patterns are 0, 1, 101; for 7=111_2 the corresponding patterns are 1, 11, 111; for 13=1101_2 the patterns are 0, 1, 11, 101. - Hieronymus Fischer, Mar 13 2012
A103586(n) = a(n + a(n)); a(A214489(n)) = A103586(A214489(n)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 21 2012
Number of divisors of 2^n that are <= n. - Clark Kimberling, Apr 21 2019

			8 = 1000 in binary has length 4.

G. Everest, A. van der Poorten, I. Shparlinski and T. Ward, Recurrence Sequences, Amer. Math. Soc., 2003; see esp. p. 255.
L. Levine, Fractal sequences and restricted Nim, Ars Combin. 80 (2006), 113-127.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1024
K. Hessami Pilehrood, and T. Hessami Pilehrood, Vacca-Type Series for Values of the Generalized Euler Constant Function and its Derivative, J. Integer Sequences, 13 (2010), #10.7.3.
L. Levine, Fractal sequences and restricted Nim, arXiv:math/0409408 [math.CO], 2004.
Ralf Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences ...
Ralf Stephan, Table of generating functions
Ralf Stephan, Divide-and-conquer generating functions. I. Elementary sequences, arXiv:math/0307027 [math.CO], 2003.
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n

Cf. A070940, A070941, A001511, A000523.
A029837(n+1) gives the length of binary representation of n without the leading zeros (i.e., when zero is represented as the empty sequence). For n > 0 this is equal to a(n).
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(4, 4) (see A135416).
Cf. A000120, A007088, A023416, A059015, A113473.
Cf. A083652 (partial sums).

a070939 n = if n < 2 then 1 else a070939 (n `div` 2) + 1
a070939_list = 1 : 1 : l [1] where
   l bs = bs' ++ l bs' where bs' = map (+ 1) (bs ++ bs)
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 19 2012, Jun 07 2011

A070939:=func< n | n eq 0 select 1 else #Intseq(n, 2) >; [ A070939(n): n in [0..104] ]; // Klaus Brockhaus, Jan 13 2011

A070939 := n -> `if`(n=0, 1, ilog2(2*n)):
seq(A070939(n), n=0..104); # revised by Peter Luschny, Aug 10 2017

Table[Length[IntegerDigits[n, 2]], {n, 0, 50}] (* Stefan Steinerberger, Apr 01 2006 *)
Join[{1},IntegerLength[Range[110],2]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 18 2013 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], BitLength[n]]; (* Michael Somos, Jul 10 2018 *)

{a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, #binary(n))} /* Michael Somos, Aug 31 2012 */

apply( {A070939(n)=exponent(n+!n)+1}, [0..99]) \\ works for negative n and is much faster than the above. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 04 2014, updated Feb 29 2020

def a(n): return len(bin(n)[2:])
print([a(n) for n in range(105)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Jan 01 2021

def A070939(n): return 1 if n == 0 else n.bit_length() # Chai Wah Wu, May 12 2022

def A070939(n) : return (2*n).exact_log(2) if n != 0 else 1
[A070939(n) for n in range(100)] # Peter Luschny, Aug 08 2012

a(0) = 1; for n >= 1, a(n) = 1 + floor(log_2(n)) = 1 + A000523(n).
G.f.: 1 + 1/(1-x) * Sum(k>=0, x^2^k). - Ralf Stephan, Apr 12 2002
a(0)=1, a(1)=1 and a(n) = 1+a(floor(n/2)). - Benoit Cloitre, Dec 02 2003
a(n) = A000120(n) + A023416(n). - Lekraj Beedassy, Apr 12 2006
a(2^m + k) = m + 1, m >= 0, 0 <= k < 2^m. - Yosu Yurramendi, Mar 14 2017
a(n) = A113473(n) if n>0.

a(4) corrected by Antti Karttunen, Feb 28 2003

A000035 Period 2: repeat [0, 1]; a(n) = n mod 2; parity of n.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Least significant bit of n, lsb(n).
Also decimal expansion of 1/99.
Also the binary expansion of 1/3. - Robert G. Wilson v, Sep 01 2015
a(n) = A134451(n) mod 2. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 27 2007 [Corrected by Jianing Song, Nov 22 2019]
Characteristic function of odd numbers: a(A005408(n)) = 1, a(A005843(n)) = 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 29 2008
A102370(n) modulo 2. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 04 2009
Base b expansion of 1/(b^2-1) for any b >= 2 is 0.0101... (A005563 has b^2-1). - Rick L. Shepherd, Sep 27 2009
Let A be the Hessenberg n X n matrix defined by: A[1,j] = j mod 2, A[i,i] := 1, A[i,i-1] = -1, and A[i,j] = 0 otherwise. Then, for n >= 1, a(n) = (-1)^n*charpoly(A,1). - Milan Janjic, Jan 24 2010
From R. J. Mathar, Jul 15 2010: (Start)
The sequence is the principal Dirichlet character of the reduced residue system mod 2 or mod 4 or mod 8 or mod 16 ...
Associated Dirichlet L-functions are for example L(2,chi) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)/n^2 == A111003,
or L(3,chi) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)/n^3 = 1.05179979... = 7*A002117/8,
or L(4,chi) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)/n^4 = 1.014678... = A092425/96. (End)
Also parity of the nonnegative integers A001477. - Omar E. Pol, Jan 17 2012
a(n) = (4/n), where (k/n) is the Kronecker symbol. See the Eric Weisstein link. - Wolfdieter Lang, May 28 2013
Also the inverse binomial transform of A131577. - Paul Curtz, Nov 16 2016 [an observation forwarded by Jean-François Alcover]
The emanation sequence for the globe category. That is take the globe category, take the corresponding polynomial comonad, consider its carrier polynomial as a generating function, and take the corresponding sequence. - David Spivak, Sep 25 2020
For n > 0, a(n) is the alternating sum of the product of n increasing and n decreasing odd factors. For example, a(4) = 1*7 - 3*5 + 5*3 - 7*1 and a(5) = 1*9 - 3*7 + 5*5 - 7*3 + 9*1. - Charlie Marion, Mar 24 2022

			G.f. = x + x^3 + x^5 + x^7 + x^9 + x^11 + x^13 + x^15 + ... - _Michael Somos_, Feb 20 2024

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

David Wasserman, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Paul Barry, A Catalan Transform and Related Transformations on Integer Sequences, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 8 (2005), Article 05.4.5.
F. Javier de Vega, An extension of Furstenberg's theorem of the infinitude of primes, arXiv:2003.13378 [math.NT], 2020.
Clark Kimberling, A Combinatorial Classification of Triangle Centers on the Line at Infinity, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 22 (2019), Article 19.5.4.
Y. Puri and T. Ward, Arithmetic and growth of periodic orbits, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 4 (2001), #01.2.1.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Dirichlet Series Generating Function
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Kronecker Symbol
A. K. Whitford, Binet's Formula Generalized, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1979, pp. 21, 24, 29
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings
Index entries for characteristic functions
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,1).

Ones complement of A059841.
Cf. A053644 for most significant bit.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(1, 2) (see A135416).
Period k zigzag sequences: this sequence (k=2), A007877 (k=4), A260686 (k=6), A266313 (k=8), A271751 (k=10), A271832 (k=12), A279313 (k=14), A279319 (k=16), A158289 (k=18).
Cf. A154955 (Mobius transform), A131577 (binomial transform).
Cf. A111003 (Dgf at s=2), A233091 (Dgf at s=3), A300707 (Dgf at s=4).
Parity of A005811.

a000035 n = n `mod` 2  -- James Spahlinger, Oct 08 2012

a000035_list = cycle [0,1]  -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 06 2012

A000035 := n->n mod 2;
[ seq(i mod 2, i=0..100) ];

PadLeft[{},110,{0,1}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 25 2011 *)

A000035(n):=mod(n,2)$
makelist(A000035(n),n,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Nov 12 2012 */

PARI
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a(n)=n%2;
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a(n)=direuler(p=1,100,if(p==2,1,1/(1-X)))[n] /* Ralf Stephan, Mar 27 2015 */

def A000035(n): return n & 1 # Chai Wah Wu, May 25 2022

(define (A000035 n) (mod n 2)) ;; For R6RS. Use modulo in older Schemes like MIT/GNU Scheme. - Antti Karttunen, Mar 21 2017

a(n) = (1 - (-1)^n)/2.
a(n) = n mod 2.
a(n) = 1 - a(n-1).
Multiplicative with a(p^e) = p mod 2. - David W. Wilson, Aug 01 2001
G.f.: x/(1-x^2). E.g.f.: sinh(x). - Paul Barry, Mar 11 2003
a(n) = (A000051(n) - A014551(n))/2. - Mario Catalani (mario.catalani(AT)unito.it), Aug 30 2003
a(n) = ceiling((-2)^(-n-1)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 19 2005
Dirichlet g.f.: (1-1/2^s)*zeta(s). - R. J. Mathar, Mar 04 2011
a(n) = ceiling(n/2) - floor(n/2). - Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Sep 16 2012
a(n) = ceiling( cos(Pi*(n-1))/2 ). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jun 16 2013
a(n) = floor((n-1)/2) - floor((n-2)/2). - Mikael Aaltonen, Feb 26 2015
Dirichlet g.f.: L(chi(2),s) with chi(2) the principal Dirichlet character modulo 2. - Ralf Stephan, Mar 27 2015
a(n) = 0^^n = 0^(0^(0...)) (n times), where we take 0^0 to be 1. - Natan Arie Consigli, May 02 2015
Euler transform and inverse Moebius transform of length 2 sequence [0, 1]. - Michael Somos, Feb 20 2024

A001511 The ruler function: exponent of the highest power of 2 dividing 2n. Equivalently, the 2-adic valuation of 2n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 7, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

Number of 2's dividing 2*n.
a(n) is equivalently the exponent of the smallest power of 2 which does not divide n. - David James Sycamore, Oct 02 2023
a(n) - 1 is the number of trailing zeros in the binary expansion of n.
If you are counting in binary and the least significant bit is numbered 1, the next bit is 2, etc., a(n) is the bit that is incremented when increasing from n-1 to n. - Jud McCranie, Apr 26 2004
Number of steps to reach an integer starting with (n+1)/2 and using the map x -> x*ceiling(x) (cf. A073524).
a(n) is the number of the disk to be moved at the n-th step of the optimal solution to Towers of Hanoi problem (comment from Andreas M. Hinz).
Shows which bit to flip when creating the binary reflected Gray code (bits are numbered from the right, offset is 1). This is essentially equivalent to Hinz's comment. - Adam Kertesz, Jul 28 2001
a(n) is the Hamming distance between n and n-1 (in binary). This is equivalent to Kertesz's comments above. - Tak-Shing Chan (chan12(AT)alumni.usc.edu), Feb 25 2003
Let S(0) = {1}, S(n) = {S(n-1), S(n-1)-{x}, x+1} where x = last term of S(n-1); sequence gives S(infinity). - Benoit Cloitre, Jun 14 2003
The sum of all terms up to and including the first occurrence of m is 2^m-1. - Donald Sampson (marsquo(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 01 2003
m appears every 2^m terms starting with the 2^(m-1)th term. - Donald Sampson (marsquo(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 08 2003
Sequence read mod 4 gives A092412. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 28 2004
If q = 2n/2^A001511(n) and if b(m) is defined by b(0)=q-1 and b(m)=2*b(m-1)+1, then 2n = b(A001511(n)) + 1. - Gerald McGarvey, Dec 18 2004
Repeating pattern ABACABADABACABAE ... - Jeremy Gardiner, Jan 16 2005
Relation to C(n) = Collatz function iteration using only odd steps: a(n) is the number of right bits set in binary representation of A004767(n) (numbers of the form 4*m+3). So for m=A004767(n) it follows that there are exactly a(n) recursive steps where mBetween every two instances of any positive integer m there are exactly m distinct values (1 through m-1 and one value greater than m). - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Sep 18 2006
Number of divisors of n of the form 2^k. - Giovanni Teofilatto, Jul 25 2007
Every prefix up to (but not including) the first occurrence of some k >= 2 is a palindrome. - Gary W. Adamson, Sep 24 2008
1 interleaved with (2 interleaved with (3 interleaved with ( ... ))). - Eric D. Burgess (ericdb(AT)gmail.com), Oct 17 2009
A054525 (Möbius transform) * A001511 = A036987 = A047999^(-1) * A001511. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 26 2009
Equals A051731 * A036987, (inverse Möbius transform of the Fredholm-Rueppel sequence) = A047999 * A036987. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 26 2009
Cf. A173238, showing links between generalized ruler functions and A000041. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 14 2010
Given A000041, P(x) = A(x)/A(x^2) with P(x) = (1 + x + 2x^2 + 3x^3 + 5x^4 + 7x^5 + ...), A(x) = (1 + x + 3x^2 + 4x^3 + 10x^4 + 13x^5 + ...), A(x^2) = (1 + x^2 + 3x^4 + 4x^6 + 10x^8 + ...), where A092119 = (1, 1, 3, 4, 10, ...) = Euler transform of the ruler sequence, A001511. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 11 2010
Subtracting 1 from every term and deleting any 0's yields the same sequence, A001511. - Ben Branman, Dec 28 2011
In the listing of the compositions of n as lists in lexicographic order, a(k) is the last part of composition(k) for all k <= 2^(n-1) and all n, see example. - Joerg Arndt, Nov 12 2012
According to Hinz, et al. (see links), this sequence was studied by Louis Gros in his 1872 pamphlet "Théorie du Baguenodier" and has therefore been called the Gros sequence.
First n terms comprise least squarefree word of length n using positive integers, where "squarefree" means that the word contains no consecutive identical subwords; e.g., 1 contains no square; 11 contains a square but 12 does not; 121 contains no square; both 1211 and 1212 have squares but 1213 does not; etc. - Clark Kimberling, Sep 05 2013
Length of 0-run starting from 2 (10, 100, 110, 1000, 1010, ...), or length of 1-run starting from 1 (1, 11, 101, 111, 1001, 1011, ...) of every second number, from right to left in binary representation. - Armands Strazds, Apr 13 2017
a(n) is also the frequency of the largest part in the integer partition having viabin number n. The viabin number of an integer partition is defined in the following way. Consider the southeast border of the Ferrers board of the integer partition and consider the binary number obtained by replacing each east step with 1 and each north step, except the last one, with 0. The corresponding decimal form is, by definition, the viabin number of the given integer partition. "Viabin" is coined from "via binary". For example, consider the integer partition [2,2,2,1]. The southeast border of its Ferrers board yields 10100, leading to the viabin number 20. - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 24 2017
As A000005(n) equals the number of even divisors of 2n and A001227(n) = A001227(2n), the formula A001511(n) = A000005(n)/A001227(n) might be read as "The number of even divisors of 2n is always divisible by the number of odd divisors of 2n" (where number of divisors means sum of zeroth powers of divisors). Conjecture: For any nonnegative integer k, the sum of the k-th powers of even divisors of n is always divisible by the sum of the k-th powers of odd divisors of n. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jul 06 2019
From Benoit Cloitre, Jul 14 2022: (Start)
To construct the sequence, start from 1's separated by a place 1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,...
Then put the 2's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,...
Then the 3's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,...
Then the 4's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,...
By iterating this process, we get the ruler function 1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,... (End)
a(n) is the least positive integer k for which there does not exist i+j=n and a(i)=a(j)=k (cf. A322523). - Rémy Sigrist and Jianing Song, Aug 23 2022
a(n) is the smallest positive integer that does not occur in the coincidences of the sequence so far a(1..n-1) and its reverse. - Neal Gersh Tolunsky, Jan 18 2023
The geometric mean of this sequence approaches the Somos constant (A112302). - Jwalin Bhatt, Jan 31 2025

			For example, 2^1|2, 2^2|4, 2^1|6, 2^3|8, 2^1|10, 2^2|12, ... giving the initial terms 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, ...
From _Omar E. Pol_, Jun 12 2009: (Start)
Triangle begins:
1;
2,1;
3,1,2,1;
4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
6,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
7,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,6,1,2,1,3,...
(End)
S(0) = {} S(1) = 1 S(2) = 1, 2, 1 S(3) = 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1 S(4) = 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1. - Yann David (yann_david(AT)hotmail.com), Mar 21 2010
From _Joerg Arndt_, Nov 12 2012: (Start)
The 16 compositions of 5 as lists in lexicographic order:
[ n]  a(n)  composition
[ 1]  [ 1]  [ 1 1 1 1 1 ]
[ 2]  [ 2]  [ 1 1 1 2 ]
[ 3]  [ 1]  [ 1 1 2 1 ]
[ 4]  [ 3]  [ 1 1 3 ]
[ 5]  [ 1]  [ 1 2 1 1 ]
[ 6]  [ 2]  [ 1 2 2 ]
[ 7]  [ 1]  [ 1 3 1 ]
[ 8]  [ 4]  [ 1 4 ]
[ 9]  [ 1]  [ 2 1 1 1 ]
[10]  [ 2]  [ 2 1 2 ]
[11]  [ 1]  [ 2 2 1 ]
[12]  [ 3]  [ 2 3 ]
[13]  [ 1]  [ 3 1 1 ]
[14]  [ 2]  [ 3 2 ]
[15]  [ 1]  [ 4 1 ]
[16]  [ 5]  [ 5 ]
a(n) is the last part in each list.
(End)
From _Omar E. Pol_, Aug 20 2013: (Start)
Also written as a triangle in which the right border gives A000027 and row lengths give A011782 and row sums give A000079 the sequence begins:
1;
2;
1,3;
1,2,1,4;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,6;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,7;
(End)
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + x^3 + 3*x^4 + x^5 + 2*x^6 + x^7 + 4*x^8 + x^9 + 2*x^10 + ...

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Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings
Index entries for sequences related to Towers of Hanoi

Column 1 of table A050600.
Sequence read mod 2 gives A035263.
Sequence is bisection of A007814, A050603, A050604, A067029, A089309.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(4, 2) (see A135416).
Cf. A005187 (partial sums), A085058 (bisection), A112302 (geometric mean), A171977 (2^a(n)).
Cf. A000005, A000041, A000079, A003188, A003278, A003602, A007949, A018238, A047999, A051731, A054525, A054852, A065176, A082850, A089080, A092119, A117303, A129360, A130093, A173238, A181988, A220466.
Cf. A287896, A002487, A209229 (Mobius trans.), A092673 (Dirichlet inv.).
Cf. generalized ruler functions for k=3,4,5: A051064, A115362, A055457.

a001511 n = length $ takeWhile ((== 0) . (mod n)) a000079_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 27 2011

a001511 n | odd n = 1 | otherwise = 1 + a001511 (n `div` 2)
-- Walt Rorie-Baety, Mar 22 2013

nmax=5;r=1;for n=2:nmax;r=[r n r];end % Adriano Caroli, Feb 26 2016

[Valuation(2*n,2): n in [1..105]]; // Bruno Berselli, Nov 23 2015

A001511 := n->2-wt(n)+wt(n-1); # where wt is defined in A000120
# This is the binary logarithm of the denominator of (256^n-1)B_{8n}/n, in Maple parlance a := n -> log[2](denom((256^n-1)*bernoulli(8*n)/n)). - Peter Luschny, May 31 2009
A001511 := n -> padic[ordp](2*n,2): seq(A001511(n), n=1..105);  # Peter Luschny, Nov 26 2010
a:= n-> ilog2((Bits[Xor](2*n, 2*n-1)+1)/2): seq(a(n), n=1..50);  # Gary Detlefs, Dec 13 2018

Array[ If[ Mod[ #, 2] == 0, FactorInteger[ # ][[1, 2]], 0] &, 105] + 1 (* or *)
Nest[ Flatten[ # /. a_Integer -> {1, a + 1}] &, {1}, 7] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 04 2005 *)
IntegerExponent[2*n, 2] (* Alexander R. Povolotsky, Aug 19 2011 *)
myHammingDistance[n_, m_] := Module[{g = Max[m, n], h = Min[m, n]}, b1 = IntegerDigits[g, 2]; b2 = IntegerDigits[h, 2, Length[b1]]; HammingDistance[b1, b2]] (* Vladimir Shevelev A206853 *) Table[ myHammingDistance[n, n - 1], {n, 111}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Apr 05 2012 *)
Table[Position[Reverse[IntegerDigits[n,2]],1,1,1],{n,110}]//Flatten (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 18 2017 *)

a(n) = sum(k=0,floor(log(n)/log(2)),floor(n/2^k)-floor((n-1)/2^k)) /* Ralf Stephan */

a(n)=if(n%2,1,factor(n)[1,2]+1) /* Jon Perry, Jun 06 2004 */

{a(n) = if( n, valuation(n, 2) + 1, 0)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006 */

{a(n)=if(n==1,1,polcoeff(x-sum(k=1, n-1, a(k)*x^k*(1-x^k)*(1-x+x*O(x^n))), n))} /* Paul D. Hanna, Jun 22 2007 */

def a(n): return bin(n)[2:][::-1].index("1") + 1 # Indranil Ghosh, May 11 2017

A001511 = lambda n: (n&-n).bit_length() # M. F. Hasler, Apr 09 2020

def A001511(n): return (~n & n-1).bit_length()+1 # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 01 2022

[valuation(2*n,2) for n in (1..105)]  # Bruno Berselli, Nov 23 2015

(define (A001511 n) (let loop ((n n) (e 1)) (if (odd? n) e (loop (/ n 2) (+ 1 e))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Oct 06 2017

a(n) = A007814(n) + 1 = A007814(2*n).
a(2*n+1) = 1; a(2*n) = 1 + a(n). - Philippe Deléham, Dec 08 2003
a(n) = 2 - A000120(n) + A000120(n-1), n >= 1. - Daniele Parisse
a(n) = 1 + log_2(abs(A003188(n) - A003188(n-1))).
Multiplicative with a(p^e) = e+1 if p = 2; 1 if p > 2. - David W. Wilson, Aug 01 2001
For any real x > 1/2: lim_{N->infinity} (1/N)*Sum_{n=1..N} x^(-a(n)) = 1/(2*x-1); also lim_{N->infinity} (1/N)*Sum_{n=1..N} 1/a(n) = log(2). - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 16 2001
s(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) is asymptotic to 2*n since s(n) = 2*n - A000120(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 31 2002
For any n >= 0, for any m >= 1, a(2^m*n + 2^(m-1)) = m. - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 24 2002
a(n) = Sum_{d divides n and d is odd} mu(d)*tau(n/d). - Vladeta Jovovic, Dec 04 2002
G.f.: A(x) = Sum_{k>=0} x^(2^k)/(1-x^(2^k)). - Ralf Stephan, Dec 24 2002
a(1) = 1; for n > 1, a(n) = a(n-1) + (-1)^n*a(floor(n/2)). - Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 25 2003
A fixed point of the mapping 1->12; 2->13; 3->14; 4->15; 5->16; ... . - Philippe Deléham, Dec 13 2003
Product_{k>0} (1+x^k)^a(k) is g.f. for A000041(). - Vladeta Jovovic, Mar 26 2004
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = A(x^2) + x/(1-x). - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Feb 09 2006
a(A118413(n,k)) = A002260(n,k); = a(A118416(n,k)) = A002024(n,k); a(A014480(n)) = A003602(A014480(n)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 27 2006
Ordinal transform of A003602. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Aug 28 2006 (The ordinal transform of a sequence b_0, b_1, b_2, ... is the sequence a_0, a_1, a_2, ... where a_n is the number of times b_n has occurred in {b_0 ... b_n}.)
Could be extended to n <= 0 using a(-n) = a(n), a(0) = 0, a(2*n) = a(n)+1 unless n=0. - Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006
A094267(2*n) = A050603(2*n) = A050603(2*n + 1) = a(n). - Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006
Sequence = A129360 * A000005 = M*V, where M = an infinite lower triangular matrix and V = d(n) as a vector: [1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Apr 15 2007
Row sums of triangle A130093. - Gary W. Adamson, May 13 2007
Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s)*2^s/(2^s-1). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 17 2007
a(n) = -Sum_{d divides n} mu(2*d)*tau(n/d). - Benoit Cloitre, Jun 21 2007
G.f.: x/(1-x) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)*x^n*( 1 - x^n ). - Paul D. Hanna, Jun 22 2007
2*n = 2^a(n)* A000265(n). - Eric Desbiaux, May 14 2009 [corrected by Alejandro Erickson, Apr 17 2012]
Multiplicative with a(2^k) = k + 1, a(p^k) = 1 for any odd prime p. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jun 09 2009
With S(n): 2^n - 1 first elements of the sequence then S(0) = {} (empty list) and if n > 0, S(n) = S(n-1), n, S(n-1). - Yann David (yann_david(AT)hotmail.com), Mar 21 2010
a(n) = log_2(A046161(n)/A046161(n-1)). - Johannes W. Meijer, Nov 04 2012
a((2*n-1)*2^p) = p+1, p >= 0 and n >= 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, Feb 05 2013
a(n+1) = 1 + Sum_{j=0..ceiling(log_2(n+1))} (j * (1 - abs(sign((n mod 2^(j + 1)) - 2^j + 1)))). - Enrico Borba, Oct 01 2015
Conjecture: a(n) = A181988(n)/A003602(n). - L. Edson Jeffery, Nov 21 2015
a(n) = log_2(A006519(n)) + 1. - Doug Bell, Jun 02 2017
Inverse Moebius transform of A209229. - Andrew Howroyd, Aug 04 2018
a(n) = 1 + (A183063(n)/A001227(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Nov 06 2018 (after Franklin T. Adams-Watters)
a(n) = log_2((Xor(2*n,2*n-1)+1)/2). - Gary Detlefs, Dec 13 2018
(2^(a(n)-1)-1)*(n mod 4) = 2*floor(((n+1) mod 4)/3). - Gary Detlefs, Dec 14 2018
a(n) = A000005(n)/A001227(n). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jul 05 2019
a(n) = Sum_{j=1..r} (j/2^j)*(Product_{k=1..j} (1 - (-1)^floor( (n+2^(j-1))/2^(k-1) ))), for n < a predefined 2^r. - Adriano Caroli, Sep 30 2019

Name edited following suggestion by David James Sycamore, Oct 05 2023

A006519 Highest power of 2 dividing n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 16, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 32, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 16, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 64, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 16, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 32, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

Least positive k such that m^k + 1 divides m^n + 1 (with fixed base m). - Vladimir Baltic, Mar 25 2002
To construct the sequence: start with 1, concatenate 1, 1 and double last term gives 1, 2. Concatenate those 2 terms, 1, 2, 1, 2 and double last term 1, 2, 1, 2 -> 1, 2, 1, 4. Concatenate those 4 terms: 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4 and double last term -> 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, etc. - Benoit Cloitre, Dec 17 2002
a(n) = gcd(seq(binomial(2*n, 2*m+1)/2, m = 0 .. n - 1)) (odd numbered entries of even numbered rows of Pascal's triangle A007318 divided by 2), where gcd() denotes the greatest common divisor of a set of numbers. Due to the symmetry of the rows it suffices to consider m = 0 .. floor((n-1)/2). - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 23 2004
Equals the continued fraction expansion of a constant x (cf. A100338) such that the continued fraction expansion of 2*x interleaves this sequence with 2's: contfrac(2*x) = [2; 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 8, 2, ...].
Simon Plouffe observes that this sequence and A003484 (Radon function) are very similar, the difference being all zeros except for every 16th term (see A101119 for nonzero differences). Dec 02 2004
This sequence arises when calculating the next odd number in a Collatz sequence: Next(x) = (3*x + 1) / A006519, or simply (3*x + 1) / BitAnd(3*x + 1, -3*x - 1). - Jim Caprioli, Feb 04 2005
a(n) = n if and only if n = 2^k. This sequence can be obtained by taking a(2^n) = 2^n in place of a(2^n) = n and using the same sequence building approach as in A001511. - Amarnath Murthy, Jul 08 2005
Also smallest m such that m + n - 1 = m XOR (n - 1); A086799(n) = a(n) + n - 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 02 2007
Number of 1's between successive 0's in A159689. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 22 2009
Least number k such that all coefficients of k*E(n, x), the n-th Euler polynomial, are integers (cf. A144845). - Peter Luschny, Nov 13 2009
In the binary expansion of n, delete everything left of the rightmost 1 bit. - Ralf Stephan, Aug 22 2013
The equivalent sequence for partitions is A194446. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 22 2013
Also the 2-adic value of 1/n, n >= 1. See the Mahler reference, definition on p. 7. This is a non-archimedean valuation. See Mahler, p. 10. Sometimes called 2-adic absolute value of 1/n. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jun 28 2014
First 2^(k-1) - 1 terms are also the heights of the successive rectangles and squares of width 2 that are adjacent to any of the four sides of the toothpick structure of A139250 after 2^k stages, with k >= 2. For example: if k = 5 the heights after 32 stages are [1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1] respectively, the same as the first 15 terms of this sequence. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 29 2020

			2^3 divides 24, but 2^4 does not divide 24, so a(24) = 8.
2^0 divides 25, but 2^1 does not divide 25, so a(25) = 1.
2^1 divides 26, but 2^2 does not divide 26, so a(26) = 2.
Per _Marc LeBrun_'s 2000 comment, a(n) can also be determined with bitwise operations in two's complement. For example, given n = 48, we see that n in binary in an 8-bit byte is 00110000 while -n is 11010000. Then 00110000 AND 11010000 = 00010000, which is 16 in decimal, and therefore a(48) = 16.
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + x^3 + 4*x^4 + x^5 + 2*x^6 + x^7 + 8*x^8 + x^9 + ...

Kurt Mahler, p-adic numbers and their functions, second ed., Cambridge University Press, 1981.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Dzmitry Badziahin and Jeffrey Shallit, An Unusual Continued Fraction, arXiv:1505.00667 [math.NT], 2015.
Dzmitry Badziahin and Jeffrey Shallit, An unusual continued fraction, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016), 1887-1896.
Tyler Ball, Tom Edgar, and Daniel Juda, Dominance Orders, Generalized Binomial Coefficients, and Kummer's Theorem, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 87, No. 2, April 2014, pp. 135-143.
M. Beeler, R. W. Gosper and R. Schroeppel, Item 175, in Beeler, M., Gosper, R. W. and Schroeppel, R. HAKMEM. MIT AI Memo 239, Feb 29 1972.
Ron Brown and Jonathan L. Merzel, The number of Ducci sequences with a given period, Fib. Quart., 45 (2007), 115-121.
Daniel Bruns, Wojciech Mostowski, and Mattias Ulbrich, Implementation-level verification of algorithms with KeY, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, November 2013.
Victor Meally, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, May 1975.
Laurent Orseau, Levi H. S. Lelis, and Tor Lattimore, Zooming Cautiously: Linear-Memory Heuristic Search With Node Expansion Guarantees, arXiv:1906.03242 [cs.AI], 2019.
Laurent Orseau, Levi H. S. Lelis, Tor Lattimore, and Théophane Weber, Single-Agent Policy Tree Search With Guarantees, arXiv:1811.10928 [cs.AI], 2018, also in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Montréal, Canada.
Ralf Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences with (relatively) simple ordinary generating functions.
Ralf Stephan, Table of generating functions.
Ralf Stephan, Divide-and-conquer generating functions. I. Elementary sequences, arXiv:math/0307027 [math.CO], 2003.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Even Part.
Wikipedia, Converse nonimplication.
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n.

Partial sums are in A006520, second partial sums in A022560.
Sequences used in definitions of this sequence: A000079, A001511, A004198, A007814.
Cf. A000265, A100338, A003484, A001620, A101119, A002487, A139250.
Sequences with related definitions: A038712, A171977, A135481 (GS(1, 6)).
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(5, 2) (see A135416).
Related to A007913 via A225546.
A059897 is used to express relationship between sequence terms.
Cf. A091476 (Dgf at s=2).

import Data.Bits ((.&.))
a006519 n = n .&. (-n) :: Integer
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 11 2012, Dec 29 2011

using IntegerSequences
[EvenPart(n) for n in 1:102] |> println  # Peter Luschny, Sep 25 2021

[2^Valuation(n, 2): n in [1..100]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Mar 27 2015

with(numtheory): for n from 1 to 200 do if n mod 2 = 1 then printf(`%d,`,1) else printf(`%d,`,2^ifactors(n)[2][1][2]) fi; od:
A006519 := proc(n) if type(n,'odd') then 1 ; else for f in ifactors(n)[2] do if op(1,f) = 2 then return 2^op(2,f) ; end if; end do: end if; end proc: # R. J. Mathar, Oct 25 2010
A006519 := n -> 2^padic[ordp](n,2): # Peter Luschny, Nov 26 2010

lowestOneBit[n_] := Block[{k = 0}, While[Mod[n, 2^k] == 0, k++]; 2^(k - 1)]; Table[lowestOneBit[n], {n, 102}] (* Robert G. Wilson v Nov 17 2004 *)
Table[2^IntegerExponent[n, 2], {n, 128}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 10 2012 *)
Table[BitAnd[BitNot[i - 1], i], {i, 1, 102}] (* Peter Luschny, Oct 10 2019 *)

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a(n)=bitand(n,-n); \\ Joerg Arndt, Jun 10 2011

a(n)=direuler(p=2,n,if(p==2,1/(1-2*X),1/(1-X)))[n] \\ Ralf Stephan, Mar 27 2015

def A006519(n): return n&-n # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 06 2022

(1 to 128).map(Integer.lowestOneBit()) // _Alonso del Arte, Mar 04 2020

a(n) = n AND -n (where "AND" is bitwise, and negative numbers are represented in two's complement in a suitable bit width). - Marc LeBrun, Sep 25 2000, clarified by Alonso del Arte, Mar 16 2020
Also: a(n) = gcd(2^n, n). - Labos Elemer, Apr 22 2003
Multiplicative with a(p^e) = p^e if p = 2; 1 if p > 2. - David W. Wilson, Aug 01 2001
G.f.: Sum_{k>=0} 2^k*x^2^k/(1 - x^2^(k+1)). - Ralf Stephan, May 06 2003
Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s)*(2^s - 1)/(2^s - 2) = zeta(s)*(1 - 2^(-s))/(1 - 2*2^(-s)). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 17 2007
a(n) = 2^floor(A002487(n - 1) / A002487(n)). - Reikku Kulon, Oct 05 2008
a(n) = 2^A007814(n). - R. J. Mathar, Oct 25 2010
a((2*k - 1)*2^e) = 2^e, k >= 1, e >= 0. - Johannes W. Meijer, Jun 07 2011
a(n) = denominator of Euler(n-1, 1). - Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Jul 12 2012
a(n) = A011782(A001511(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Sep 13 2013
a(n) = (n XOR floor(n/2)) XOR (n-1 XOR floor((n-1)/2)) = n - (n AND n-1) (where "AND" is bitwise). - Gary Detlefs, Jun 12 2014
a(n) = ((n XOR n-1)+1)/2. - Gary Detlefs, Jul 02 2014
a(n) = A171977(n)/2. - Peter Kern, Jan 04 2017
a(n) = 2^(A001511(n)-1). - Doug Bell, Jun 02 2017
a(n) = abs(A003188(n-1) - A003188(n)). - Doug Bell, Jun 02 2017
Conjecture: a(n) = (1/(A000203(2*n)/A000203(n)-2)+1)/2. - Velin Yanev, Jun 30 2017
a(n) = (n-1) o n where 'o' is the bitwise converse nonimplication. 'o' is not commutative. n o (n+1) = A135481(n). - Peter Luschny, Oct 10 2019
From Peter Munn, Dec 13 2019: (Start)
a(A225546(n)) = A225546(A007913(n)).
a(A059897(n,k)) = A059897(a(n), a(k)). (End)
Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) ~ (1/(2*log(2)))*n*log(n) + (3/4 + (gamma-1)/(2*log(2)))*n, where gamma is Euler's constant (A001620). - Amiram Eldar, Nov 15 2022
a(n) = n / A000265(n). - Amiram Eldar, May 22 2025

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A135529 Guy Steele's sequence GS(4,5) (see A135416).

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A135533 Guy Steele's sequence GS(4,6) (see A135416).

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A135542 Guy Steele's sequence GS(6,4) (see A135416).

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A138035 Binomial transform of A135416.

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A000120 1's-counting sequence: number of 1's in binary expansion of n (or the binary weight of n).

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A007814 Exponent of highest power of 2 dividing n, a.k.a. the binary carry sequence, the ruler sequence, or the 2-adic valuation of n.

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