A335885 The length of a shortest path from n to a power of 2, when applying the nondeterministic maps k -> k - k/p and k -> k + k/p, where p can be any of the odd prime factors of k, and the maps can be applied in any order.

0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 0, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3

Offset: 1

Author

Antti Karttunen, Jun 29 2020

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

The length of a shortest path from n to a power of 2, when using the transitions x -> A171462(x) and x -> A335876(x) in any order.

a((2^e)-1) is equal to A046051(e) = A001222((2^e)-1) when e is either a Mersenne exponent (in A000043), or some other number: 1, 4, 6, 8, 16, 32. For example, 32 is present because 2^32 - 1 = 4294967295 = 3*5*17*257*65537, a squarefree product of five known Fermat primes. - Antti Karttunen, Aug 11 2020

Examples

			A335876(67) = 68, and A171462(68) = 64 = 2^6, and this is the shortest path from 67 to a power of 2, thus a(67) = 2.
A171462(15749) = 15748, A335876(15748) = 15872, A335876(15872) = 16384 = 2^14, and this is the shortest path from 15749 to a power of 2, thus a(15749) = 3.
		

Links

• Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..65537

Crossrefs

Cf. A000043, A046051, A052126, A171462, A335876, A335875, A335881, A335884, A335904, A335907.

Cf. A000079, A335911, A335912 (positions of 0's, 1's and 2's in this sequence) and array A335910.

Programs

PARI

A335885(n) = { my(f=factor(n)); sum(k=1,#f~,if(2==f[k,1],0,f[k,2]*(1+min(A335885(f[k,1]-1),A335885(f[k,1]+1))))); };

PARI

\\ Or empirically as:
A171462(n) = if(1==n,0,(n-(n/vecmax(factor(n)[, 1]))));
A335876(n) = if(1==n,2,(n+(n/vecmax(factor(n)[, 1]))));
A209229(n) = (n && !bitand(n,n-1));
A335885(n) = if(A209229(n),0,my(xs=Set([n]),newxs,a,b,u); for(k=1,oo, newxs=Set([]); for(i=1,#xs,u = xs[i]; a = A171462(u); if(A209229(a), return(k)); b = A335876(u); if(A209229(b), return(k)); newxs = setunion([a],newxs); newxs = setunion([b],newxs)); xs = newxs));

Formula

Fully additive with a(2) = 0, and a(p) = 1+min(a(p-1), a(p+1)), for odd primes p.

For all n >= 1, a(n) <= A335875(n) <= A335881(n) <= A335884(n) <= A335904(n).

For all n >= 0, a(A000244(n)) = n, and these also seem to give records.