A157971 Odious twin locations: first members of pairs of consecutive odious numbers.
1, 7, 13, 21, 25, 31, 37, 41, 49, 55, 61, 69, 73, 81, 87, 93, 97, 103, 109, 117, 121, 127, 133, 137, 145, 151, 157, 161, 167, 173, 181, 185, 193, 199, 205, 213, 217, 223, 229, 233, 241, 247, 253, 261, 265, 273, 279, 285, 289, 295
Offset: 1
Examples
The sequence of odious numbers (A000069) begins 1,2,4,7,8,11,13,14,16,19,21,..., so the first few odious twins are at 1,7,13, ... .
Links
- Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from Harvey P. Dale)
- 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[OddQ[DigitCount[n,2,1]],1,0],{n,300}],{1,1}][[All,1]] (* Requires Mathematica version 10 or later *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 05 2016 *)
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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) = A248057(n) - 1. - Amiram Eldar, Jun 16 2025
Extensions
Comment corrected by Jeff Aronson. - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 04 2020
Comments