A193240 Trajectory of binary number 110 (decimal 6) under the operation "Reverse and Add" carried out with complex base -1+i.

110, 11101, 10110, 11101011, 1110100111000, 1110001101111, 1100100110101100, 1110011000111111, 1100110101111011100, 1000110010101111, 1111101001000000010

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Author

Kerry Mitchell, Jul 19 2011

Keywords

• nonn
• base

Examples

			The initial term is 110. Using complex base -1+i, this is -1-i. Reversing 110 gives 011, which is 0+i.  Adding both terms gives -1+0i, which is 11101, the second term.
		

Links

• Kerry Mitchell, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..500
• W. J. Gilbert, Arithmetic in Complex Bases, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Mar., 1984), pp. 77-81.

Crossrefs

Cf A193239, number of steps needed to reach a palindrome with complex base -1+i. For that sequence, a(6)=-1, showing that decimal 6 (binary 110) seems to not reach a palindrome under the "Reverse and Add" iteration. Cf A193241, the trajectory of 10100 (decimal 20).