A322523 -id:A322523 - cp's OEIS frontend

A007814 Exponent of highest power of 2 dividing n, a.k.a. the binary carry sequence, the ruler sequence, or the 2-adic valuation of n.

0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 5, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 6, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 5, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0

Offset: 1

John Tromp, Dec 11 1996

This sequence is an exception to my usual rule that when every other term of a sequence is 0 then those 0's should be omitted. In this case we would get A001511. - N. J. A. Sloane
To construct the sequence: start with 0,1, concatenate to get 0,1,0,1. Add + 1 to last term gives 0,1,0,2. Concatenate those 4 terms to get 0,1,0,2,0,1,0,2. Add + 1 to last term etc. - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 06 2003
The sequence is invariant under the following two transformations: increment every element by one (1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, ...), put a zero in front and between adjacent elements (0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 4, ...). The intermediate result is A001511. - Ralf Hinze (ralf(AT)informatik.uni-bonn.de), Aug 26 2003
Fixed point of the morphism 0->01, 1->02, 2->03, 3->04, ..., n->0(n+1), ..., starting from a(1) = 0. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 15 2004
Fixed point of the morphism 0->010, 1->2, 2->3, ..., n->(n+1), .... - Joerg Arndt, Apr 29 2014
a(n) is also the number of times to repeat a step on an even number in the hailstone sequence referenced in the Collatz conjecture. - Alex T. Flood (whiteangelsgrace(AT)gmail.com), Sep 22 2006
Let F(n) be the n-th Fermat number (A000215). Then F(a(r-1)) divides F(n)+2^k for r = k mod 2^n and r != 1. - T. D. Noe, Jul 12 2007
The following relation holds: 2^A007814(n)*(2*A025480(n-1)+1) = A001477(n) = n. (See functions hd, tl and cons in [Paul Tarau 2009].)
a(n) is the number of 0's at the end of n when n is written in base 2.
a(n+1) is the number of 1's at the end of n when n is written in base 2. - M. F. Hasler, Aug 25 2012
Shows which bit to flip when creating the binary reflected Gray code (bits are numbered from the right, offset is 0). That is, A003188(n) XOR A003188(n+1) == 2^A007814(n). - Russ Cox, Dec 04 2010
The sequence is squarefree (in the sense of not containing any subsequence of the form XX) [Allouche and Shallit]. Of course it contains individual terms that are squares (such as 4). - Comment expanded by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 28 2019
a(n) is the number of zero coefficients in the n-th Stern polynomial, A125184. - T. D. Noe, Mar 01 2011
Lemma: For n < m with r = a(n) = a(m) there exists n < k < m with a(k) > r. Proof: We have n=b2^r and m=c2^r with b < c both odd; choose an even i between them; now a(i2^r) > r and n < i2^r < m. QED. Corollary: Every finite run of consecutive integers has a unique maximum 2-adic valuation. - Jason Kimberley, Sep 09 2011
a(n-2) is the 2-adic valuation of A000166(n) for n >= 2. - Joerg Arndt, Sep 06 2014
a(n) = number of 1's in the partition having Heinz number n. We define the Heinz number of a partition p = [p_1, p_2, ..., p_r] as Product_{j=1..r} p_j-th prime (concept used by Alois P. Heinz in A215366 as an "encoding" of a partition). For example, for the partition [1, 1, 2, 4, 10] we get 2*2*3*7*29 = 2436. Example: a(24)=3; indeed, the partition having Heinz number 24 = 2*2*2*3  is [1,1,1,2]. - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 04 2015
a(n+1) is the difference between the two largest parts in the integer partition having viabin number n (0 is assumed to be a part). Example: a(20) = 2. Indeed, we have 19 = 10011_2, leading to the Ferrers board of the partition [3,1,1]. For the definition of viabin number see the comment in A290253. - Emeric Deutsch, Aug 24 2017
Apart from being squarefree, as noted above, the sequence has the property that every consecutive subsequence contains at least one number an odd number of times. - Jon Richfield, Dec 20 2018
a(n+1) is the 2-adic valuation of Sum_{e=0..n} u^e = (1 + u + u^2 + ... + u^n), for any u of the form 4k+1 (A016813). - Antti Karttunen, Aug 15 2020
{a(n)} represents the "first black hat" strategy for the game of countably infinitely many hats, with a probability of success of 1/3; cf. the Numberphile link below. - Frederic Ruget, Jun 14 2021
a(n) is the least nonnegative integer k for which there does not exist i+j=n and a(i)=a(j)=k (cf. A322523). - Rémy Sigrist and Jianing Song, Aug 23 2022

			2^3 divides 24, so a(24)=3.
From _Omar E. Pol_, Jun 12 2009: (Start)
Triangle begins:
  0;
  1,0;
  2,0,1,0;
  3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  5,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0;
  6,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,4,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,3,0,1,0,2,0,1,0,5,0,1,0,2,...
(End)

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003, p. 27.
K. Atanassov, On the 37th and the 38th Smarandache Problems, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Sophia, Bulgaria, Vol. 5 (1999), No. 2, 83-85.
Michel Rigo, Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems, 2 vols., Wiley, 2014. Mentions this sequence - see "List of Sequences" in Vol. 2.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Joerg Arndt, Subset-lex: did we miss an order?, arXiv:1405.6503 [math.CO], 2014.
K. Atanassov, On Some of Smarandache's Problems
Alain Connes, Caterina Consani, and Henri Moscovici, Zeta zeros and prolate wave operators, arXiv:2310.18423 [math.NT], 2023.
Dario T. de Castro, P-adic Order of Positive Integers via Binomial Coefficients, INTEGERS, Electronic J. of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 22, Paper A61, 2022.
Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Jeffrey Shallit, Avoiding Squares and Overlaps Over the Natural Numbers, (2009) Discrete Math., 309 (2009), 6245-6254.
Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Jeffrey Shallit, Avoiding Squares and Overlaps Over the Natural Numbers, arXiv:0901.1397 [math.CO], 2009.
M. Hassani, Equations and inequalities involving v_p(n!), J. Inequ. Pure Appl. Math. 6 (2005) vol. 2, #29.
A. M. Hinz, S. Klavžar, U. Milutinović, and C. Petr, The Tower of Hanoi - Myths and Maths, Birkhäuser 2013. See page 61. Book's website
R. Hinze, Concrete stream calculus: An extended study, J. Funct. Progr. 20 (5-6) (2010) 463-535, doi, Section 3.2.3.
Clark Kimberling, Affinely recursive sets and orderings of languages, Discrete Math., 274 (2004), 147-160.
Francis Laclé, 2-adic parity explorations of the 3n+ 1 problem, hal-03201180v2 [cs.DM], 2021.
Shuo Li, Palindromic length sequence of the ruler sequence and of the period-doubling sequence, arXiv:2007.08317 [math.CO], 2020.
Nicolas Mallet, Trial for a proof of the Syracuse conjecture, arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05039 [math.GM], 2015.
S. Mazzanti, Plain Bases for Classes of Primitive Recursive Functions, Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 48 (2002).
Matthew Andres Moreno, Luis Zaman, and Emily Dolson, Structured Downsampling for Fast, Memory-efficient Curation of Online Data Streams, arXiv:2409.06199 [cs.DS], 2024. See p. 5.
Sascha Mücke, Coding Nuggets Faster QUBO Brute-Force Solving, TU Dortmund Univ. (Germany 2023).
S. Northshield, An Analogue of Stern's Sequence for Z[sqrt(2)], Journal of Integer Sequences, 18 (2015), #15.11.6.
Numberphile, Hat Problems - Numberphile
Giovanni Pighizzini, Limited Automata: Properties, Complexity and Variants, International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS 2019) Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Vol. 11612) Springer, Cham, 57-73.
Simon Plouffe, On the values of the functions ... [zeta and Gamma] ..., arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7195 [math.NT], 2013.
A. Postnikov (MIT) and B. Sagan, What power of two divides a weighted Catalan number?, arXiv:math/0601339 [math.CO], 2006.
Lara Pudwell and Eric Rowland, Avoiding fractional powers over the natural numbers, arXiv:1510.02807 [math.CO] (2015). Also Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 25(2) (2018), #P2.27. See Section 2.
Ville Salo, Decidability and Universality of Quasiminimal Subshifts, arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6644 [math.DS], 2014.
Vladimir Shevelev, Several results on sequences which are similar to the positive integers, arXiv:0904.2101 [math.NT], 2014.
F. Smarandache, Only Problems, Not Solutions!.
Ralf Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences ...
Ralf Stephan, Table of generating functions
Paul Tarau, A Groupoid of Isomorphic Data Transformations. Calculemus 2009, 8th International Conference, MKM 2009, pp. 170-185, Springer, LNAI 5625.
P. M. B. Vitanyi, An optimal simulation of counter machines, SIAM J. Comput, 14:1(1985), 1-33.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Binary, Binary Carry Sequence, and Double-Free Set.
Wikipedia, P-adic order.
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n

Cf. A011371 (partial sums), A094267 (first differences), A001511 (bisection), A346070 (mod 4).
Bisection of A050605 and |A088705|. Pairwise sums are A050603 and A136480. Difference of A285406 and A281264.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(1, 4) (see A135416). Cf. A053398(1,n). Column/row 1 of table A050602.
Cf. A007949 (3-adic), A235127 (4-adic), A112765 (5-adic), A122841 (6-adic), A214411 (7-adic), A244413 (8-adic), A122840 (10-adic).
Cf. A000079, A002487, A006519, A051064, A055457, A063787, A215366, A220466.
Cf. A086463 (Dgf at s=2).

a007814 n = if m == 0 then 1 + a007814 n' else 0
            where (n', m) = divMod n 2
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 05 2013, May 14 2011, Apr 08 2011

a007814 n | odd n = 0 | otherwise = 1 + a007814 (n `div` 2)
--  Walt Rorie-Baety, Mar 22 2013

[Valuation(n, 2): n in [1..120]]; // Bruno Berselli, Aug 05 2013

ord := proc(n) local i,j; if n=0 then return 0; fi; i:=0; j:=n; while j mod 2 <> 1 do i:=i+1; j:=j/2; od: i; end proc: seq(ord(n), n=1..111);
A007814 := n -> padic[ordp](n,2): seq(A007814(n), n=1..111); # Peter Luschny, Nov 26 2010

Table[IntegerExponent[n, 2], {n, 64}] (* Eric W. Weisstein *)
IntegerExponent[Range[64], 2] (* Eric W. Weisstein, Feb 01 2024 *)
p=2; Array[ If[ Mod[ #, p ]==0, Select[ FactorInteger[ # ], Function[ q, q[ [ 1 ] ]==p ], 1 ][ [ 1, 2 ] ], 0 ]&, 96 ]
DigitCount[BitXor[x, x - 1], 2, 1] - 1; a different version based on the same concept: Floor[Log[2, BitXor[x, x - 1]]] (* Jaume Simon Gispert (jaume(AT)nuem.com), Aug 29 2004 *)
Nest[Join[ #, ReplacePart[ #, Length[ # ] -> Last[ # ] + 1]] &, {0, 1}, 5] (* N. J. Gunther, May 23 2009 *)
Nest[ Flatten[# /. a_Integer -> {0, a + 1}] &, {0}, 7] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 17 2011 *)

PARI
```
A007814(n)=valuation(n,2);
```

import math
def a(n): return int(math.log(n - (n & n - 1), 2)) # Indranil Ghosh, Apr 18 2017

def A007814(n): return (~n & n-1).bit_length() # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 01 2022

sapply(1:100,function(x) sum(gmp::factorize(x)==2)) # Christian N. K. Anderson, Jun 20 2013

(define (A007814 n) (let loop ((n n) (e 0)) (if (odd? n) e (loop (/ n 2) (+ 1 e))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Oct 06 2017

a(n) = A001511(n) - 1.
a(2*n) = A050603(2*n) = A001511(n).
a(n) = A091090(n-1) + A036987(n-1) - 1.
a(n) = 0 if n is odd, otherwise 1 + a(n/2). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 11 2001
Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) = n - A000120(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 19 2002
G.f.: A(x) = Sum_{k>=1} x^(2^k)/(1-x^(2^k)). - Ralf Stephan, Apr 10 2002
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = A(x^2) + x^2/(1-x^2). A(x) = B(x^2) = B(x) - x/(1-x), where B(x) is the g.f. for A001151. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Feb 09 2006
Totally additive with a(p) = 1 if p = 2, 0 otherwise.
Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s)/(2^s-1). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 17 2007
Define 0 <= k <= 2^n - 1; binary: k = b(0) + 2*b(1) + 4*b(2) + ... + 2^(n-1)*b(n-1); where b(x) are 0 or 1 for 0 <= x <= n - 1; define c(x) = 1 - b(x) for 0 <= x <= n - 1; Then: a(k) = c(0) + c(0)*c(1) + c(0)*c(1)*c(2) + ... + c(0)*c(1)...c(n-1); a(k+1) = b(0) + b(0)*b(1) + b(0)*b(1)*b(2) + ... + b(0)*b(1)...b(n-1). - Arie Werksma (werksma(AT)tiscali.nl), May 10 2008
a(n) = floor(A002487(n - 1) / A002487(n)). - Reikku Kulon, Oct 05 2008
Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^A000120(n-k)*a(k) = (-1)^(A000120(n)-1)*(A000120(n) - A000035(n)). - Vladimir Shevelev, Mar 17 2009
a(A001147(n) + A057077(n-1)) = a(2*n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Mar 21 2009
For n>=1, a(A004760(n+1)) = a(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 15 2009
2^(a(n)) = A006519(n). - Philippe Deléham, Apr 22 2009
a(n) = A063787(n) - A000120(n). - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 04 2009
a(C(n,k)) = A000120(k) + A000120(n-k) - A000120(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 19 2009
a(n!) = n - A000120(n). - Vladimir Shevelev, Jul 20 2009
v_{2}(n) = Sum_{r>=1} (r / 2^(r+1)) Sum_{k=0..2^(r+1)-1} e^(2(k*Pi*i(n+2^r))/(2^(r+1))). - A. Neves, Sep 28 2010, corrected Oct 04 2010
a(n) mod 2 = A096268(n-1). - Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 18 2012
a(A005408(n)) = 1; a(A016825(n)) = 3; A017113(a(n)) = 5; A051062(a(n)) = 7; a(n) = (A037227(n)-1)/2. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 30 2012
a((2*n-1)*2^p) = p, p >= 0 and n >= 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, Feb 04 2013
a(n) = A067255(n,1). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 11 2013
a(n) = log_2(n - (n AND n-1)). - Gary Detlefs, Jun 13 2014
a(n) = 1 + A000120(n-1) - A000120(n), where A000120 is the Hamming weight function. - Stanislav Sykora, Jul 14 2014
A053398(n,k) = a(A003986(n-1,k-1)+1); a(n) = A053398(n,1) = A053398(n,n) = A053398(2*n-1,n) = Min_{k=1..n} A053398(n,k). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 04 2014
a((2*x-1)*2^n) = a((2*y-1)*2^n) for positive n, x and y. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Aug 04 2016
a(n) = A285406(n) - A281264(n). - Ralf Steiner, Apr 18 2017
a(n) = A000005(n)/(A000005(2*n) - A000005(n)) - 1. - conjectured by Velin Yanev, Jun 30 2017, proved by Nicholas Stearns, Sep 11 2017
Equivalently to above formula, a(n) = A183063(n) / A001227(n), i.e., a(n) is the number of even divisors of n divided by number of odd divisors of n. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Oct 31 2018
a(n)*(n mod 4) = 2*floor(((n+1) mod 4)/3). - Gary Detlefs, Feb 16 2019
Asymptotic mean: lim_{m->oo} (1/m) * Sum_{k=1..m} a(k) = 1. - Amiram Eldar, Jul 11 2020
a(n) = 2*Sum_{j=1..floor(log_2(n))} frac(binomial(n, 2^j)*2^(j-1)/n). - Dario T. de Castro, Jul 08 2022
a(n) = A070939(n) - A070939(A030101(n)). - Andrew T. Porter, Dec 16 2022
a(n) = floor((gcd(n, 2^n)^(n+1) mod (2^(n+1)-1)^2)/(2^(n+1)-1)) (see Lemma 3.4 from Mazzanti's 2002 article). - Lorenzo Sauras Altuzarra, Mar 10 2024
a(n) = 1 - A088705(n). - Chai Wah Wu, Sep 18 2024

Formula index adapted to the offset of A025480 by R. J. Mathar, Jul 20 2010

Edited by Ralf Stephan, Feb 08 2014

A001511 The ruler function: exponent of the highest power of 2 dividing 2n. Equivalently, the 2-adic valuation of 2n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 7, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

Number of 2's dividing 2*n.
a(n) is equivalently the exponent of the smallest power of 2 which does not divide n. - David James Sycamore, Oct 02 2023
a(n) - 1 is the number of trailing zeros in the binary expansion of n.
If you are counting in binary and the least significant bit is numbered 1, the next bit is 2, etc., a(n) is the bit that is incremented when increasing from n-1 to n. - Jud McCranie, Apr 26 2004
Number of steps to reach an integer starting with (n+1)/2 and using the map x -> x*ceiling(x) (cf. A073524).
a(n) is the number of the disk to be moved at the n-th step of the optimal solution to Towers of Hanoi problem (comment from Andreas M. Hinz).
Shows which bit to flip when creating the binary reflected Gray code (bits are numbered from the right, offset is 1). This is essentially equivalent to Hinz's comment. - Adam Kertesz, Jul 28 2001
a(n) is the Hamming distance between n and n-1 (in binary). This is equivalent to Kertesz's comments above. - Tak-Shing Chan (chan12(AT)alumni.usc.edu), Feb 25 2003
Let S(0) = {1}, S(n) = {S(n-1), S(n-1)-{x}, x+1} where x = last term of S(n-1); sequence gives S(infinity). - Benoit Cloitre, Jun 14 2003
The sum of all terms up to and including the first occurrence of m is 2^m-1. - Donald Sampson (marsquo(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 01 2003
m appears every 2^m terms starting with the 2^(m-1)th term. - Donald Sampson (marsquo(AT)hotmail.com), Dec 08 2003
Sequence read mod 4 gives A092412. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 28 2004
If q = 2n/2^A001511(n) and if b(m) is defined by b(0)=q-1 and b(m)=2*b(m-1)+1, then 2n = b(A001511(n)) + 1. - Gerald McGarvey, Dec 18 2004
Repeating pattern ABACABADABACABAE ... - Jeremy Gardiner, Jan 16 2005
Relation to C(n) = Collatz function iteration using only odd steps: a(n) is the number of right bits set in binary representation of A004767(n) (numbers of the form 4*m+3). So for m=A004767(n) it follows that there are exactly a(n) recursive steps where mBetween every two instances of any positive integer m there are exactly m distinct values (1 through m-1 and one value greater than m). - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Sep 18 2006
Number of divisors of n of the form 2^k. - Giovanni Teofilatto, Jul 25 2007
Every prefix up to (but not including) the first occurrence of some k >= 2 is a palindrome. - Gary W. Adamson, Sep 24 2008
1 interleaved with (2 interleaved with (3 interleaved with ( ... ))). - Eric D. Burgess (ericdb(AT)gmail.com), Oct 17 2009
A054525 (Möbius transform) * A001511 = A036987 = A047999^(-1) * A001511. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 26 2009
Equals A051731 * A036987, (inverse Möbius transform of the Fredholm-Rueppel sequence) = A047999 * A036987. - Gary W. Adamson, Oct 26 2009
Cf. A173238, showing links between generalized ruler functions and A000041. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 14 2010
Given A000041, P(x) = A(x)/A(x^2) with P(x) = (1 + x + 2x^2 + 3x^3 + 5x^4 + 7x^5 + ...), A(x) = (1 + x + 3x^2 + 4x^3 + 10x^4 + 13x^5 + ...), A(x^2) = (1 + x^2 + 3x^4 + 4x^6 + 10x^8 + ...), where A092119 = (1, 1, 3, 4, 10, ...) = Euler transform of the ruler sequence, A001511. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 11 2010
Subtracting 1 from every term and deleting any 0's yields the same sequence, A001511. - Ben Branman, Dec 28 2011
In the listing of the compositions of n as lists in lexicographic order, a(k) is the last part of composition(k) for all k <= 2^(n-1) and all n, see example. - Joerg Arndt, Nov 12 2012
According to Hinz, et al. (see links), this sequence was studied by Louis Gros in his 1872 pamphlet "Théorie du Baguenodier" and has therefore been called the Gros sequence.
First n terms comprise least squarefree word of length n using positive integers, where "squarefree" means that the word contains no consecutive identical subwords; e.g., 1 contains no square; 11 contains a square but 12 does not; 121 contains no square; both 1211 and 1212 have squares but 1213 does not; etc. - Clark Kimberling, Sep 05 2013
Length of 0-run starting from 2 (10, 100, 110, 1000, 1010, ...), or length of 1-run starting from 1 (1, 11, 101, 111, 1001, 1011, ...) of every second number, from right to left in binary representation. - Armands Strazds, Apr 13 2017
a(n) is also the frequency of the largest part in the integer partition having viabin number n. The viabin number of an integer partition is defined in the following way. Consider the southeast border of the Ferrers board of the integer partition and consider the binary number obtained by replacing each east step with 1 and each north step, except the last one, with 0. The corresponding decimal form is, by definition, the viabin number of the given integer partition. "Viabin" is coined from "via binary". For example, consider the integer partition [2,2,2,1]. The southeast border of its Ferrers board yields 10100, leading to the viabin number 20. - Emeric Deutsch, Jul 24 2017
As A000005(n) equals the number of even divisors of 2n and A001227(n) = A001227(2n), the formula A001511(n) = A000005(n)/A001227(n) might be read as "The number of even divisors of 2n is always divisible by the number of odd divisors of 2n" (where number of divisors means sum of zeroth powers of divisors). Conjecture: For any nonnegative integer k, the sum of the k-th powers of even divisors of n is always divisible by the sum of the k-th powers of odd divisors of n. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jul 06 2019
From Benoit Cloitre, Jul 14 2022: (Start)
To construct the sequence, start from 1's separated by a place 1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,,1,...
Then put the 2's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,,1,2,1,...
Then the 3's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,...
Then the 4's in every other remaining place
  1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,...
By iterating this process, we get the ruler function 1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,... (End)
a(n) is the least positive integer k for which there does not exist i+j=n and a(i)=a(j)=k (cf. A322523). - Rémy Sigrist and Jianing Song, Aug 23 2022
a(n) is the smallest positive integer that does not occur in the coincidences of the sequence so far a(1..n-1) and its reverse. - Neal Gersh Tolunsky, Jan 18 2023
The geometric mean of this sequence approaches the Somos constant (A112302). - Jwalin Bhatt, Jan 31 2025

			For example, 2^1|2, 2^2|4, 2^1|6, 2^3|8, 2^1|10, 2^2|12, ... giving the initial terms 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, ...
From _Omar E. Pol_, Jun 12 2009: (Start)
Triangle begins:
1;
2,1;
3,1,2,1;
4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
6,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1;
7,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,6,1,2,1,3,...
(End)
S(0) = {} S(1) = 1 S(2) = 1, 2, 1 S(3) = 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1 S(4) = 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1. - Yann David (yann_david(AT)hotmail.com), Mar 21 2010
From _Joerg Arndt_, Nov 12 2012: (Start)
The 16 compositions of 5 as lists in lexicographic order:
[ n]  a(n)  composition
[ 1]  [ 1]  [ 1 1 1 1 1 ]
[ 2]  [ 2]  [ 1 1 1 2 ]
[ 3]  [ 1]  [ 1 1 2 1 ]
[ 4]  [ 3]  [ 1 1 3 ]
[ 5]  [ 1]  [ 1 2 1 1 ]
[ 6]  [ 2]  [ 1 2 2 ]
[ 7]  [ 1]  [ 1 3 1 ]
[ 8]  [ 4]  [ 1 4 ]
[ 9]  [ 1]  [ 2 1 1 1 ]
[10]  [ 2]  [ 2 1 2 ]
[11]  [ 1]  [ 2 2 1 ]
[12]  [ 3]  [ 2 3 ]
[13]  [ 1]  [ 3 1 1 ]
[14]  [ 2]  [ 3 2 ]
[15]  [ 1]  [ 4 1 ]
[16]  [ 5]  [ 5 ]
a(n) is the last part in each list.
(End)
From _Omar E. Pol_, Aug 20 2013: (Start)
Also written as a triangle in which the right border gives A000027 and row lengths give A011782 and row sums give A000079 the sequence begins:
1;
2;
1,3;
1,2,1,4;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,6;
1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,7;
(End)
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + x^3 + 3*x^4 + x^5 + 2*x^6 + x^7 + 4*x^8 + x^9 + 2*x^10 + ...

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, Winning Ways, Academic Press, NY, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 2001-2003; see Dim- and Dim+ on p. 98; Dividing Rulers, on pp. 436-437; The Ruler Game, pp. 469-470; Ruler Fours, Fives, ... Fifteens on p. 470.
L. Gros, Théorie du Baguenodier, Aimé Vingtrinier, Lyon, 1872.
R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, Springer, 1st edition, 1981. See section E22.
A. M. Hinz, The Tower of Hanoi, in Algebras and combinatorics (Hong Kong, 1997), 277-289, Springer, Singapore, 1999.
D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 4A, Combinatorial Algorithms, Section 7.1.3, Problem 41, p. 589.
Andrew Schloss, "Towers of Hanoi" composition, in The Digital Domain. Elektra/Asylum Records 9 60303-2, 1983. Works by Jaffe (Finale to "Silicon Valley Breakdown"), McNabb ("Love in the Asylum"), Schloss ("Towers of Hanoi"), Mattox ("Shaman"), Rush, Moorer ("Lions are Growing") and others.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, The ring of k-regular sequences, Theoretical Computer Sci., 98 (1992), 163-197.
J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, The ring of k-regular sequences, Theoretical Computer Sci., 98 (1992), 163-197.
Joerg Arndt, Matters Computational (The Fxtbook), p. 9, pp. 733-734
Joerg Arndt, Subset-lex: did we miss an order?, arXiv:1405.6503 [math.CO], 2014.
B. Baker Swart, R. Florez, D. Narayan, and G. Rudolph Extrema Property of the k-Ranking of Directed Paths and Cycles, AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 13 (2016) 38-53.
J. Britton, Tower of Hanoi Solution
Yann Bugeaud and Guo-Niu Han, A combinatorial proof of the non-vanishing of Hankel determinants of the Thue-Morse sequence, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 21(3) (2014), #P3.26. See G(z) in (1.1).
Antonin Callard, Léo Paviet Salomon, and Pascal Vanier, Computability of extender sets in multidimensional subshifts, arXiv:2401.07549 [cs.DM], 2024.
Imanuel Chen and Michael Z. Spivey, Integral Generalized Binomial Coefficients of Multiplicative Functions, Preprint 2015; Summer Research Paper 238, Univ. Puget Sound.
Vassili Daiev, Greatest divisors of even integers: Problem 636, Math. Mag., 40 (1967), 164-165.
P. Flajolet, J.-C. Raoult, and J. Vuillemin, The number of registers required for evaluating arithmetic expressions, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 9 (1979), no. 1, 99-125.
R. Florez and D. Narayan Maximizing the number of edges in optimal k-rankings, AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 12.1 (2015) 1-8.
Rigoberto Flórez, Robinson A. Higuita, and Antara Mukherjee, The Star of David and Other Patterns in Hosoya Polynomial Triangles, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 21 (2018), Article 18.4.6, also arXiv:1706.04247 [math.CO], 2017.
Madeleine Goertz and Aaron Williams, The Quaternary Gray Code and How It Can Be Used to Solve Ziggurat and Other Ziggu Puzzles, arXiv:2411.19291 [math.CO], 2024. See pp. 1, 2, 12, 24.
Fernando Q. Gouvêa, p-Adic Numbers, Springer-Verlag, 1993; see p. 23.
A. M. Hinz, S. Klavžar, U. Milutinović, and C. Petr, The Tower of Hanoi - Myths and Maths, Birkhäuser 2013. See 'The Gros Sequence', page 60. Book's website
Norbert Hungerbühler and Ernst Specker, A generalization of the Smarandache Function to several variables, INTEGERS 6 (2006) #A23. [See final section.]
Douglas E. Iannucci and Urban Larsson, Game values of arithmetic functions, arXiv:2101.07608 [math.NT], 2021. Section 1.1.2. p. 5.
Jonas Kaiser, On the relationship between the Collatz conjecture and Mersenne prime numbers, arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00862 [math.GM], 2016.
J. C. Lagarias and N. J. A. Sloane, Approximate squaring (pdf, ps), Experimental Math., 13 (2004), 113-128.
S. Legendre and P. Paclet, On the Permutations Generated by Cyclic Shift , J. Int. Seq. 14 (2011) # 11.3.2.
Subhayan Roy Moulik and Sergii Strelchuk, DQC1-hardness of estimating correlation functions, arXiv:2411.05208 [quant-ph], 2024. See p. 8.
Juan Carlos Nuño and Francisco J. Muñoz, On the ubiquity of the ruler sequence, arXiv:2009.14629 [math.HO], 2020.
Michael Naylor, Abacaba-Dabacaba [updated by _Jeremy Gardiner_, Sep 11 2015]
Juan Carlos Nuño and Francisco J. Muñoz, The Ruler Sequence Revisited: A Dynamic Perspective, Mathematics (2024) Vol. 12, No. 5, 742.
Simon Plouffe, On the values of the functions ... [zeta and Gamma] ..., arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7195 [math.NT], 2013.
Joseph Rosenbaum, Elementary Problem E319, American Mathematical Monthly, volume 45, number 10, December 1938, pages 694-696. (The A indices in P at equations 1 and 2.)
Ralf Stephan, Divide-and-conquer generating functions. I. Elementary sequences, arXiv:math/0307027 [math.CO], 2003.
Ralf Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences ...
Ralf Stephan, Table of generating functions
Dinesh Thakur, Gauss sums for function fields, J. Number Theory, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 1991, Pages 242-252.
Dinesh S. Thakur, Continued fraction for the exponential for F_q[T], Journal of Number Theory, 41.2 (1992): 150-155. See page 153.
Dinesh S. Thakur, Patterns of Continued Fractions for the Analogues of e and Related Numbers in the Function Field Case, Journal of Number Theory, 66.1 (1997): 129-147. See p. 130.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Binary Carry Sequence, Ruler Function, and Towers of Hanoi
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n
Index entries for sequences that are fixed points of mappings
Index entries for sequences related to Towers of Hanoi

Column 1 of table A050600.
Sequence read mod 2 gives A035263.
Sequence is bisection of A007814, A050603, A050604, A067029, A089309.
This is Guy Steele's sequence GS(4, 2) (see A135416).
Cf. A005187 (partial sums), A085058 (bisection), A112302 (geometric mean), A171977 (2^a(n)).
Cf. A000005, A000041, A000079, A003188, A003278, A003602, A007949, A018238, A047999, A051731, A054525, A054852, A065176, A082850, A089080, A092119, A117303, A129360, A130093, A173238, A181988, A220466.
Cf. A287896, A002487, A209229 (Mobius trans.), A092673 (Dirichlet inv.).
Cf. generalized ruler functions for k=3,4,5: A051064, A115362, A055457.

a001511 n = length $ takeWhile ((== 0) . (mod n)) a000079_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 27 2011

a001511 n | odd n = 1 | otherwise = 1 + a001511 (n `div` 2)
-- Walt Rorie-Baety, Mar 22 2013

nmax=5;r=1;for n=2:nmax;r=[r n r];end % Adriano Caroli, Feb 26 2016

[Valuation(2*n,2): n in [1..105]]; // Bruno Berselli, Nov 23 2015

A001511 := n->2-wt(n)+wt(n-1); # where wt is defined in A000120
# This is the binary logarithm of the denominator of (256^n-1)B_{8n}/n, in Maple parlance a := n -> log[2](denom((256^n-1)*bernoulli(8*n)/n)). - Peter Luschny, May 31 2009
A001511 := n -> padic[ordp](2*n,2): seq(A001511(n), n=1..105);  # Peter Luschny, Nov 26 2010
a:= n-> ilog2((Bits[Xor](2*n, 2*n-1)+1)/2): seq(a(n), n=1..50);  # Gary Detlefs, Dec 13 2018

Array[ If[ Mod[ #, 2] == 0, FactorInteger[ # ][[1, 2]], 0] &, 105] + 1 (* or *)
Nest[ Flatten[ # /. a_Integer -> {1, a + 1}] &, {1}, 7] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 04 2005 *)
IntegerExponent[2*n, 2] (* Alexander R. Povolotsky, Aug 19 2011 *)
myHammingDistance[n_, m_] := Module[{g = Max[m, n], h = Min[m, n]}, b1 = IntegerDigits[g, 2]; b2 = IntegerDigits[h, 2, Length[b1]]; HammingDistance[b1, b2]] (* Vladimir Shevelev A206853 *) Table[ myHammingDistance[n, n - 1], {n, 111}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Apr 05 2012 *)
Table[Position[Reverse[IntegerDigits[n,2]],1,1,1],{n,110}]//Flatten (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 18 2017 *)

a(n) = sum(k=0,floor(log(n)/log(2)),floor(n/2^k)-floor((n-1)/2^k)) /* Ralf Stephan */

a(n)=if(n%2,1,factor(n)[1,2]+1) /* Jon Perry, Jun 06 2004 */

{a(n) = if( n, valuation(n, 2) + 1, 0)}; /* Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006 */

{a(n)=if(n==1,1,polcoeff(x-sum(k=1, n-1, a(k)*x^k*(1-x^k)*(1-x+x*O(x^n))), n))} /* Paul D. Hanna, Jun 22 2007 */

def a(n): return bin(n)[2:][::-1].index("1") + 1 # Indranil Ghosh, May 11 2017

A001511 = lambda n: (n&-n).bit_length() # M. F. Hasler, Apr 09 2020

def A001511(n): return (~n & n-1).bit_length()+1 # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 01 2022

[valuation(2*n,2) for n in (1..105)]  # Bruno Berselli, Nov 23 2015

(define (A001511 n) (let loop ((n n) (e 1)) (if (odd? n) e (loop (/ n 2) (+ 1 e))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Oct 06 2017

a(n) = A007814(n) + 1 = A007814(2*n).
a(2*n+1) = 1; a(2*n) = 1 + a(n). - Philippe Deléham, Dec 08 2003
a(n) = 2 - A000120(n) + A000120(n-1), n >= 1. - Daniele Parisse
a(n) = 1 + log_2(abs(A003188(n) - A003188(n-1))).
Multiplicative with a(p^e) = e+1 if p = 2; 1 if p > 2. - David W. Wilson, Aug 01 2001
For any real x > 1/2: lim_{N->infinity} (1/N)*Sum_{n=1..N} x^(-a(n)) = 1/(2*x-1); also lim_{N->infinity} (1/N)*Sum_{n=1..N} 1/a(n) = log(2). - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 16 2001
s(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) is asymptotic to 2*n since s(n) = 2*n - A000120(n). - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 31 2002
For any n >= 0, for any m >= 1, a(2^m*n + 2^(m-1)) = m. - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 24 2002
a(n) = Sum_{d divides n and d is odd} mu(d)*tau(n/d). - Vladeta Jovovic, Dec 04 2002
G.f.: A(x) = Sum_{k>=0} x^(2^k)/(1-x^(2^k)). - Ralf Stephan, Dec 24 2002
a(1) = 1; for n > 1, a(n) = a(n-1) + (-1)^n*a(floor(n/2)). - Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 25 2003
A fixed point of the mapping 1->12; 2->13; 3->14; 4->15; 5->16; ... . - Philippe Deléham, Dec 13 2003
Product_{k>0} (1+x^k)^a(k) is g.f. for A000041(). - Vladeta Jovovic, Mar 26 2004
G.f. A(x) satisfies A(x) = A(x^2) + x/(1-x). - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Feb 09 2006
a(A118413(n,k)) = A002260(n,k); = a(A118416(n,k)) = A002024(n,k); a(A014480(n)) = A003602(A014480(n)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 27 2006
Ordinal transform of A003602. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Aug 28 2006 (The ordinal transform of a sequence b_0, b_1, b_2, ... is the sequence a_0, a_1, a_2, ... where a_n is the number of times b_n has occurred in {b_0 ... b_n}.)
Could be extended to n <= 0 using a(-n) = a(n), a(0) = 0, a(2*n) = a(n)+1 unless n=0. - Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006
A094267(2*n) = A050603(2*n) = A050603(2*n + 1) = a(n). - Michael Somos, Sep 30 2006
Sequence = A129360 * A000005 = M*V, where M = an infinite lower triangular matrix and V = d(n) as a vector: [1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Apr 15 2007
Row sums of triangle A130093. - Gary W. Adamson, May 13 2007
Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s)*2^s/(2^s-1). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 17 2007
a(n) = -Sum_{d divides n} mu(2*d)*tau(n/d). - Benoit Cloitre, Jun 21 2007
G.f.: x/(1-x) = Sum_{n>=1} a(n)*x^n*( 1 - x^n ). - Paul D. Hanna, Jun 22 2007
2*n = 2^a(n)* A000265(n). - Eric Desbiaux, May 14 2009 [corrected by Alejandro Erickson, Apr 17 2012]
Multiplicative with a(2^k) = k + 1, a(p^k) = 1 for any odd prime p. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jun 09 2009
With S(n): 2^n - 1 first elements of the sequence then S(0) = {} (empty list) and if n > 0, S(n) = S(n-1), n, S(n-1). - Yann David (yann_david(AT)hotmail.com), Mar 21 2010
a(n) = log_2(A046161(n)/A046161(n-1)). - Johannes W. Meijer, Nov 04 2012
a((2*n-1)*2^p) = p+1, p >= 0 and n >= 1. - Johannes W. Meijer, Feb 05 2013
a(n+1) = 1 + Sum_{j=0..ceiling(log_2(n+1))} (j * (1 - abs(sign((n mod 2^(j + 1)) - 2^j + 1)))). - Enrico Borba, Oct 01 2015
Conjecture: a(n) = A181988(n)/A003602(n). - L. Edson Jeffery, Nov 21 2015
a(n) = log_2(A006519(n)) + 1. - Doug Bell, Jun 02 2017
Inverse Moebius transform of A209229. - Andrew Howroyd, Aug 04 2018
a(n) = 1 + (A183063(n)/A001227(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Nov 06 2018 (after Franklin T. Adams-Watters)
a(n) = log_2((Xor(2*n,2*n-1)+1)/2). - Gary Detlefs, Dec 13 2018
(2^(a(n)-1)-1)*(n mod 4) = 2*floor(((n+1) mod 4)/3). - Gary Detlefs, Dec 14 2018
a(n) = A000005(n)/A001227(n). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jul 05 2019
a(n) = Sum_{j=1..r} (j/2^j)*(Product_{k=1..j} (1 - (-1)^floor( (n+2^(j-1))/2^(k-1) ))), for n < a predefined 2^r. - Adriano Caroli, Sep 30 2019

Name edited following suggestion by David James Sycamore, Oct 05 2023

Showing 1-3 of 3 results.

Linked to its derivation from A322523, this sequence has a natural description: "Given a series of boxes (starting at 0), put each positive integer, in sequence, in the first box in which it is not the sum of two different numbers already in that box. The sequence is the smallest number in each box."

The sequence and associated partition are closely related to powers of 3.

cp's OEIS Frontend

A354538 a(n) is the least k such that A322523(k) = n.

Views

Author

Keywords

Comments

Examples

Links

Crossrefs

Programs

Mathematica

Python

Formula

Extensions

A007814 Exponent of highest power of 2 dividing n, a.k.a. the binary carry sequence, the ruler sequence, or the 2-adic valuation of n.

Views

Author

Keywords

Comments

Examples

References

Links

Crossrefs

Programs

Haskell

Haskell

Magma

Maple

Mathematica

PARI

Python

Python

R

Scheme

Formula

Extensions

A001511 The ruler function: exponent of the highest power of 2 dividing 2n. Equivalently, the 2-adic valuation of 2n.

Views

Author

Keywords

Comments

Examples

References

Links

Crossrefs

Programs

Haskell

Haskell

MATLAB

Magma

Maple

Mathematica

PARI

PARI

PARI

PARI

Python

Python

Python

Sage

Scheme

Formula

Extensions