A157970 Evil twin locations: first members of pairs of consecutive evil numbers.
5, 9, 17, 23, 29, 33, 39, 45, 53, 57, 65, 71, 77, 85, 89, 95, 101, 105, 113, 119, 125, 129, 135, 141, 149, 153, 159, 165, 169, 177, 183, 189, 197, 201, 209, 215, 221, 225, 231, 237, 245, 249, 257, 263, 269, 277, 281, 287, 293, 297
Offset: 1
Examples
The sequence of evil numbers (A001969) begins 0,3,5,6,9,10,12,15,17,18,20,..., so the first few evil twins are 5, 9, 17, ... .
Links
- Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
- Chris Bernhardt, Evil twins alternate with odious twins, Math. Mag. 82 (2009), pp. 57-62; also on JSTOR.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Odious Number.
Programs
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Mathematica
SequencePosition[Table[If[EvenQ[DigitCount[n, 2, 1]], 1, 0], {n, 300}], {1, 1}][[All, 1]] (* Amiram Eldar, Dec 09 2019 after Harvey P. Dale at A157971 *)
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PARI
lista(nn) = select(n->(!(hammingweight(n) % 2) && !(hammingweight(n+1) % 2)), vector(nn, i, i)); \\ Michel Marcus, Jul 10 2014
Formula
a(n) = A248056(n) - 1. - Amiram Eldar, Jun 16 2025
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