A271410 LCM of exponents in binary expansion of 2n.

1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 12, 12, 12, 12, 5, 5, 10, 10, 15, 15, 30, 30, 20, 20, 20, 20, 60, 60, 60, 60, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 7, 7, 14, 14, 21, 21, 42

Offset: 0

Author

Peter Kagey, Apr 11 2016

Keywords

• nonn
• base
• look

Examples

			a(2) = lcm(2) = 2 because 2*2 = 2^2;
a(3) = lcm(1, 2) = 2 because 2*3 = 2^1 + 2^2;
a(7) = lcm(1, 2, 3) = 6 because 2*7 = 2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1.
		

Links

• Peter Kagey, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000

Crossrefs

Cf. A029931, A064894, A073642, A096111, A116417.

Programs

Mathematica

lcm[n_]:=Module[{idn2=IntegerDigits[n,2]},LCM@@Pick[Reverse[Range[ Length[ idn2]]], idn2,1]]; Join[{1},Array[lcm,100]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 24 2019 *)

PARI

a(n) = my(ve = select(x->x==1, Vecrev(binary(2*n)), 1)); lcm(vector(#ve, k, ve[k]-1)); \\ Michel Marcus, Apr 12 2016

PARI

a(n)=lcm(Vec(select(x->x, Vecrev(binary(n)), 1))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 12 2016

Python

from math import lcm
def A271410(n): return lcm(*(i for i, b in enumerate(bin(n)[:1:-1],1) if b == '1')) # Chai Wah Wu, Dec 12 2022