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A193239 Number of "Reverse and Add" steps needed to reach a palindrome using the complex base -1+i, or -1 if a palindrome is never reached.

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%I A193239 #13 Sep 26 2017 10:58:49
%S A193239 0,0,1,0,1,0,-1,0,1,0,1,6,1,6,1,0,1,0,1,4,-1,0,-1,-1,1,4,-1,0,-1,-1,5,
%T A193239 0,1,0,1,6,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,-1,0,7,-1,1,6,7,0,1,-1,1,2,1,-1,1,2,7,
%U A193239 -1,-1,0,1,0,1,-1,1,-1,1,-1,3,0,-1,-1,9,2,1
%N A193239 Number of "Reverse and Add" steps needed to reach a palindrome using the complex base -1+i, or -1 if a palindrome is never reached.
%C A193239 N is converted to its binary representation before iterating.
%H A193239 Kerry Mitchell, <a href="/A193239/b193239.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000</a>
%H A193239 W. J. Gilbert, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2689587">Arithmetic in Complex Bases</a>, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Mar., 1984), pp. 77-81.
%e A193239 Decimal 2 is 10 in binary, which is -1+i using complex base -1+i. Reversing 10 gives 01, or 1+0i.  Adding both results in 0+i, or 11 using the complex base, which is a palindrome.  Decimal 2 took 1 step to reach a palindrome, so a(2) = 1.
%Y A193239 Cf. A033665 gives the steps to reach a palindrome in base 10.
%K A193239 base,sign
%O A193239 0,12
%A A193239 _Kerry Mitchell_, Jul 19 2011