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The 3x+1 or Collatz problem is as follows: start with any number n. If n is even, divide it by 2, otherwise multiply it by 3 and add 1. Do we always reach 1? This is an unsolved problem. It is conjectured that the answer is yes.

The Krasikov-Lagarias paper shows that at least N^0.84 of the positive numbers < N fall into the 4-2-1 cycle of the 3x+1 problem. This is far short of what we think is true, that all positive numbers fall into this cycle, but it is a step. - Richard C. Schroeppel, May 01 2002

Also A001477 and A016957 interleaved. - Omar E. Pol, Jan 16 2014, updated Nov 07 2017

a(n) is the image of a(2*n) under the 3*x+1 map. - L. Edson Jeffery, Aug 17 2014

The positions of powers of 2 in this sequence are given in A160967. - Federico Provvedi, Oct 06 2021

If displayed as a rectangular array with six columns, the columns are A008585, A350521, A016777, A082286, A016789, A350522 (see example). - Omar E. Pol, Jan 03 2022

Coordination sequence for infinite tree with valency 3.

Number of Hamiltonian cycles in K_3 X P_n.

Number of ternary words of length n avoiding aa, bb, cc.

For n > 0, row sums of A029635. - Paul Barry, Jan 30 2005

Binomial transform is {1, 4, 13, 40, 121, 364, ...}, see A003462. - Philippe Deléham, Jul 23 2005

Convolved with the Jacobsthal sequence A001045 = A001786: (1, 4, 12, 32, 80, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, May 23 2009

Equals (n+1)-th row sums of triangle A161175. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 05 2009

a(n) written in base 2: a(0) = 1, a(n) for n >= 1: 11, 110, 11000, 110000, ..., i.e.: 2 times 1, (n-1) times 0 (see A003953(n)). - Jaroslav Krizek, Aug 17 2009

INVERTi transform of A003688. - Gary W. Adamson, Aug 05 2010

An elephant sequence, see A175655. For the central square four A[5] vectors, with decimal values 42, 138, 162 and 168, lead to this sequence. For the corner squares these vectors lead to the companion sequence A083329. - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 15 2010

A216022(a(n)) != 2 and A216059(a(n)) != 3. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 01 2012

Number of length-n strings of 3 letters with no two adjacent letters identical. The general case (strings of r letters) is the sequence with g.f. (1+x)/(1-(r-1)*x). - Joerg Arndt, Oct 11 2012

Sums of pairs of rows of Pascal's triangle A007318, T(2n,k)+T(2n+1,k); Sum_{n>=1} A000290(n)/a(n) = 4. - John Molokach, Sep 26 2013

a(n) is the size of largest conjugacy class in D_2n, the dihedral group with 2n elements. - Sharon Sela (sharonsela(AT)hotmail.com), May 14 2002

a(n+1) is the composition length of the n-th symmetric power of the natural representation of a finite subgroup of SL(2,C) of type D_4 (quaternion group). - Paul Boddington, Oct 23 2003

For n > 1, a(n) is the greatest common divisor of all permutations of {0, 1, ..., n} treated as base n + 1 integers. - David Scambler, Nov 08 2006 (see the Mathematics Stack Exchange link below).

From Dimitrios Choussos (choussos(AT)yahoo.de), May 11 2009: (Start)

Sequence A075888 and the above sequence are fitting together.

First 2 entries of this sequence have to be taken out.

In some cases two three or more sequenced entries of this sequence have to be added together to get the next entry of A075888.

Example: Sequences begin with 1, 3, 2, 5, 3, 7, 4, 9 (4 + 9 = 13, the next entry in A075888).

But it works out well up to primes around 50000 (haven't tested higher ones).

As A075888 gives a very regular graph. There seems to be a regularity in the primes. (End)

Starting with 1 = triangle A115359 * [1, 2, 3, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 27 2009

From Gary W. Adamson, Dec 11 2009: (Start)

Let M be an infinite lower triangular matrix with (1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...) in every column, shifted down twice. This sequence starting with 1 = M * (1, 2, 3, ...)

M =

1;

1, 0;

1, 1, 0;

0, 1, 0, 0;

0, 1, 1, 0, 0;

0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0;

0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0;

...

A026741 = M * (1, 2, 3, ...); but A002487 = lim_{n->infinity} M^n, a left-shifted vector considered as a sequence. (End)

A particular case of sequence for which a(n+3) = (a(n+2) * a(n+1)+q)/a(n) for every n > n0. Here n0 = 1 and q = -1. - Richard Choulet, Mar 01 2010

For n >= 2, a(n+1) is the smallest m such that s_n(2*m*(n-1))/(n-1) is even, where s_b(c) is the sum of digits of c in base b. - Vladimir Shevelev, May 02 2011

A001477 and A005408 interleaved. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 22 2011

Numerator of n/((n-1)*(n-2)). - Michael B. Porter, Mar 18 2012

Number of odd terms of n-th row in the triangles A162610 and A209297. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 19 2013

For n >= 3, a(n) is the periodic of integer of spiral length ratio of spiral that have (n-1) circle centers. See illustration in links. - Kival Ngaokrajang, Dec 28 2013

This is the sequence of Lehmer numbers u_n(sqrt(R), Q) with the parameters R = 4 and Q = 1. It is a strong divisibility sequence, that is, gcd(a(n), a(m)) = a(gcd(n, m)) for all natural numbers n and m. Cf. A005013 and A108412. - Peter Bala, Apr 18 2014

The sequence of convergents of the 2-periodic continued fraction [0; 1, -4, 1, -4, ...] = 1/(1 - 1/(4 - 1/(1 - 1/(4 - ...)))) = 2 begins [0/1, 1/1, 4/3, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 12/7, ...]. The present sequence is the sequence of denominators; the sequence of numerators of the continued fraction convergents [0, 1, 4, 3, 8, 5, 12, ...] is A022998, also a strong divisibility sequence. - Peter Bala, May 19 2014

For n >= 3, (a(n-2)/a(n))*Pi = vertex angle of a regular n-gon. See illustration in links. - Kival Ngaokrajang, Jul 17 2014

For n > 1, the numerator of the harmonic mean of the first n triangular numbers. - Colin Barker, Nov 13 2014

The difference sequence is a permutation of the integers. - Clark Kimberling, Apr 19 2015

From Timothy Hopper, Feb 26 2017: (Start)

Given the function a(n, p) = n/p if n mod p = 0, else n, then a possible formula is: a(n, p) = n*(1 + (p-1)*((n^(p-1)) mod p))/p, p prime, (n^(p-1)) mod p = 1, n not divisible by p. (Fermat's Little Theorem). Examples: p = 2; a(n), p = 3; A051176(n), p = 5; A060791(n), p = 7; A106608(n).

Conjecture: lcm(n, p) = p*a(n, p), gcd(n, p) = n/a(n, p). (End)

Let r(n) = (a(n+1) + 1)/a(n+1) if n mod 2 = 1, a(n+1)/(a(n+1) + 2) otherwise; then lim_{k->oo} 2^(k+2) * Product_{n=0..k} r(n)^(k-n) = Pi. - Dimitris Valianatos, Mar 22 2021

Number of integers k from 1 to n such that gcd(n,k) is odd. - Amiram Eldar, May 18 2025

T(n,k) is the number of lattice paths from (0,0) to (n,n) with steps E = (1,0) and N = (0,1) which touch but do not cross the line x - y = k and only situated above this line; example: T(3,2) = 5 because we have EENNNE, EENNEN, EENENN, ENEENN, NEEENN. - Philippe Deléham, May 23 2005

The matrix inverse of this triangle is the triangular matrix T(n,k) = (-1)^(n+k)* A085478(n,k). - Philippe Deléham, May 26 2005

Essentially the same as A050155 except with a leading diagonal A000108 (Catalan numbers) 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, .... - Philippe Deléham, May 31 2005

Number of Grand Dyck paths of semilength n and having k downward returns to the x-axis. (A Grand Dyck path of semilength n is a path in the half-plane x>=0, starting at (0,0), ending at (2n,0) and consisting of steps u=(1,1) and d=(1,-1)). Example: T(3,2)=5 because we have u(d)uud(d),uud(d)u(d),u(d)u(d)du,u(d)duu(d) and duu(d)u(d) (the downward returns to the x-axis are shown between parentheses). - Emeric Deutsch, May 06 2006

Riordan array (c(x),x*c(x)^2) where c(x) is the g.f. of A000108; inverse array is (1/(1+x),x/(1+x)^2). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 12 2007

The triangle may also be generated from M^n*[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...], where M is the infinite tridiagonal matrix with all 1's in the super and subdiagonals and [1,2,2,2,2,2,2,...] in the main diagonal. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 26 2007

Inverse binomial matrix applied to A124733. Binomial matrix applied to A089942. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 26 2007

Number of standard tableaux of shape (n+k,n-k). - Philippe Deléham, Mar 22 2007

From Philippe Deléham, Mar 30 2007: (Start)

This triangle belongs to the family of triangles defined by: T(0,0)=1, T(n,k)=0 if k<0 or if k>n, T(n,0)=x*T(n-1,0)+T(n-1,1), T(n,k)=T(n-1,k-1)+y*T(n-1,k)+T(n-1,k+1) for k>=1. Other triangles arise by choosing different values for (x,y):

(0,0) -> A053121; (0,1) -> A089942; (0,2) -> A126093; (0,3) -> A126970

(1,0) -> A061554; (1,1) -> A064189; (1,2) -> A039599; (1,3) -> A110877;

(1,4) -> A124576; (2,0) -> A126075; (2,1) -> A038622; (2,2) -> A039598;

(2,3) -> A124733; (2,4) -> A124575; (3,0) -> A126953; (3,1) -> A126954;

(3,2) -> A111418; (3,3) -> A091965; (3,4) -> A124574; (4,3) -> A126791;

(4,4) -> A052179; (4,5) -> A126331; (5,5) -> A125906. (End)

The table U(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..n} T(n,j)*k^j is given in A098474. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 29 2007

Sequence read mod 2 gives A127872. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 12 2007

Number of 2n step walks from (0,0) to (2n,2k) and consisting of step u=(1,1) and d=(1,-1) and the path stays in the nonnegative quadrant. Example: T(3,0)=5 because we have uuuddd, uududd, ududud, uduudd, uuddud; T(3,1)=9 because we have uuuudd, uuuddu, uuudud, ududuu, uuduud, uduudu, uudduu, uduuud, uududu; T(3,2)=5 because we have uuuuud, uuuudu, uuuduu, uuduuu, uduuuu; T(3,3)=1 because we have uuuuuu. - Philippe Deléham, Apr 16 2007, Apr 17 2007, Apr 18 2007

Triangular matrix, read by rows, equal to the matrix inverse of triangle A129818. - Philippe Deléham, Jun 19 2007

Let Sum_{n>=0} a(n)*x^n = (1+x)/(1-mx+x^2) = o.g.f. of A_m, then Sum_{k=0..n} T(n,k)*a(k) = (m+2)^n. Related expansions of A_m are: A099493, A033999, A057078, A057077, A057079, A005408, A002878, A001834, A030221, A002315, A033890, A057080, A057081, A054320, A097783, A077416, A126866, A028230, A161591, for m=-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15, respectively. - Philippe Deléham, Nov 16 2009

The Kn11, Kn12, Fi1 and Fi2 triangle sums link the triangle given above with three sequences; see the crossrefs. For the definitions of these triangle sums, see A180662. - Johannes W. Meijer, Apr 20 2011

4^n = (n-th row terms) dot (first n+1 odd integer terms). Example: 4^4 = 256 = (14, 28, 20, 7, 1) dot (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) = (14 + 84 + 100 + 49 + 9) = 256. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 13 2011

The linear system of n equations with coefficients defined by the first n rows solve for diagonal lengths of regular polygons with N= 2n+1 edges; the constants c^0, c^1, c^2, ... are on the right hand side, where c = 2 + 2*cos(2*Pi/N). Example: take the first 4 rows relating to the 9-gon (nonagon), N = 2*4 + 1; with c = 2 + 2*cos(2*Pi/9) = 3.5320888.... The equations are (1,0,0,0) = 1; (1,1,0,0) = c; (2,3,1,0) = c^2; (5,9,5,1) = c^3. The solutions are 1, 2.53208..., 2.87938..., and 1.87938...; the four distinct diagonal lengths of the 9-gon (nonagon) with edge = 1. (Cf. comment in A089942 which uses the analogous operations but with c = 1 + 2*cos(2*Pi/9).) - Gary W. Adamson, Sep 21 2011

Also called the Lobb numbers, after Andrew Lobb, are a natural generalization of the Catalan numbers, given by L(m,n)=(2m+1)*Binomial(2n,m+n)/(m+n+1), where n >= m >= 0. For m=0, we get the n-th Catalan number. See added reference. - Jayanta Basu, Apr 30 2013

From Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 20 2013: (Start)

T(n, k) = A053121(2*n, 2*k). T(n, k) appears in the formula for the (2*n)-th power of the algebraic number rho(N):= 2*cos(Pi/N) = R(N, 2) in terms of the odd-indexed diagonal/side length ratios R(N, 2*k+1) = S(2*k, rho(N)) in the regular N-gon inscribed in the unit circle (length unit 1). S(n, x) are Chebyshev's S polynomials (see A049310):

rho(N)^(2*n) = Sum_{k=0..n} T(n, k)*R(N, 2*k+1), n >= 0, identical in N > = 1. For a proof see the Sep 21 2013 comment under A053121. Note that this is the unreduced version if R(N, j) with j > delta(N), the degree of the algebraic number rho(N) (see A055034), appears.

For the odd powers of rho(n) see A039598. (End)

Unsigned coefficients of polynomial numerators of Eqn. 2.1 of the Chakravarty and Kodama paper, defining the polynomials of A067311. - Tom Copeland, May 26 2016

The triangle is the Riordan square of the Catalan numbers in the sense of A321620. - Peter Luschny, Feb 14 2023

Omitting the initial 0, a(n) is the number of 1's in the n-th row of the triangle in A118111. - Hans Havermann, May 26 2002

Binomial transform is A053220. - Michael Somos, Jul 10 2003

Smallest number of different people in a set of n-1 photographs that satisfies the following conditions: In each photograph there are 3 women, the woman in the middle is the mother of the person on her left and is a sister of the person on her right and the women in the middle of the photographs are all different. - Fung Cheok Yin (cheokyin_restart(AT)yahoo.com.hk), Sep 22 2006

Partial sums of A000034. - Richard Choulet, Jan 28 2010

Starting with 1 = row sums of triangle A171370. - Gary W. Adamson, Feb 15 2010

a(n) is the set of values for m in which 6k + m can be a perfect square (quadratic residues of 6 including trivial case of 0). - Gary Detlefs, Mar 19 2010

For n >= 2, a(n) is the smallest number with n as an anti-divisor. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Oct 28 2011

Sequence is also the maximum number of floors with 3 elevators and n stops in a "Convenient Building". See A196592 and Erich Friedman link below. - Robert Price, May 30 2013

a(n) is also the total number of coins left after packing 4-curves patterns (4c2) into a fountain of coins base n. The total number of 4c2 is A002620 and voids left is A000982. See illustration in links. - Kival Ngaokrajang, Oct 26 2013

Number of partitions of 6n into two even parts. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Nov 15 2014

Number of partitions of 3n into exactly 2 parts. - Colin Barker, Mar 23 2015

Nonnegative m such that floor(2*m/3) = 2*floor(m/3). - Bruno Berselli, Dec 09 2015

For n >= 3, also the independence number of the n-web graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Dec 31 2015

Equivalently, nonnegative numbers m for which m*(m+2)/3 and m*(m+5)/6 are integers. - Bruno Berselli, Jul 18 2016

Also the clique covering number of the n-Andrásfai graph for n > 0. - Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 26 2018

Maximum sum of degeneracies over all decompositions of the complete graph of order n+1 into three factors. The extremal decompositions are characterized in the Bickle link below. - Allan Bickle, Dec 21 2021

Also the Hadwiger number of the n-cocktail party graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 30 2022

The number of integer rectangles with a side of length n+1 and the property: the bisectors of the angles form a square within its limits. - Alexander M. Domashenko, Oct 17 2024

The maximum possible number of 5-cycles in an outerplanar graph on n+4 vertices. - Stephen Bartell, Jul 10 2025

Also for n > 0: numerator of Sum_{i=1..n} 2/(i*(i+1)), denominator=A026741. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 25 2002

For n > 2: a(n) = gcd(A143051((n-1)^2), A143051(1+(n-1)^2)) = A050873(A000290(n-1), A002522(n-1)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 20 2008

Partial sums give the generalized octagonal numbers A001082. - Omar E. Pol, Sep 10 2011

Multiples of 4 and odd numbers interleaved. - Omar E. Pol, Sep 25 2011

The Pisano period lengths modulo m appear to be A066043(m). - R. J. Mathar, Oct 08 2011

The partial sums a(n)/A026741(n+1) given by R. Zumkeller in a comment above are 2*n/(n+1) (telescopic sum), and thus converge to 2. - Wolfdieter Lang, Apr 09 2013

a(n) = numerator(H(n,1)), where H(n,1) = 2*n/(n+1) is the harmonic mean of 1 and n. a(n) = 2*n/gcd(2n, n+1) = 2*n/gcd(n+1,2). a(n) = A227041(n,1), n>=1. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jul 04 2013

a(n) = numerator of the mean (2n/(n+1), after reduction), of the compositions of n; denominator is given by A001792(n-1). - Clark Kimberling, Mar 11 2014

A strong divisibility sequence, that is, gcd(a(n), a(m)) = a(gcd(n,m)) for all natural numbers n and m. The sequence of convergents of the 2-periodic continued fraction [0; 1, -4, 1, -4, ...] = 1/(1 - 1/(4 - 1/(1 - 1/(4 - ...)))) begins [0/1, 1/1, 4/3, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 12/7, ...]. The present sequence is the sequence of numerators. The sequence of denominators of the continued fraction convergents [1, 1, 3, 2, 5, 3, 7, ...] is A026741, also a strong divisibility sequence. Cf. A203976. - Peter Bala, May 19 2014

a(n) is also the length of the n-th line segment of a rectangular spiral on the infinite square grid. The vertices of the spiral are the generalized octagonal numbers. - Omar E. Pol, Jul 27 2018

a(n) is the number of petals of the Rhodonea curve r = a*cos(n*theta) or r = a*sin(n*theta). - Matt Westwood, Nov 19 2019

a(n) is also the binary rank of the complete graph K(n). - Alessandro Cosentino (cosenal(AT)gmail.com), Feb 07 2009

Let I=I_n be the n X n identity matrix and P=P_n be the incidence matrix of the cycle (1,2,3,...,n). Then, for n >= 6, a(n) is the number of (0,1) n X n matrices A <= P^(-1)+I+P having exactly two 1's in every row and column with perA=2. - Vladimir Shevelev, Apr 12 2010

a(n+2) is the number of symmetry allowed, linearly independent terms at n-th order in the series expansion of the (E+A)xe vibronic perturbation matrix, H(Q) (cf. Eisfeld & Viel). - Bradley Klee, Jul 21 2015

The arithmetic function v_2(n,1) as defined in A289187. - Robert Price, Aug 22 2017

For n > 1, also the chromatic number of the n X n white bishop graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Nov 17 2017

For n > 2, also the maximum vertex degree of the n-polygon diagonal intersection graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 23 2018

For n >= 2, a(n+2) gives the minimum weight of a Boolean function of algebraic degree at most n-2 whose support contains n linearly independent elements. - Christof Beierle, Nov 25 2019

Number of compositions of n into 1's, 3's and 4's. - Len Smiley, May 08 2001

The sum of any two alternating terms (terms separated by one term) produces a number from the Fibonacci sequence. (e.g. 4+9=13, 9+25=34, 6+15=21, etc.) Taking square roots starting from the first term and every other term after, we get the Fibonacci sequence. - Sreyas Srinivasan (sreyas_srinivasan(AT)hotmail.com), May 02 2002

(1 + x + 2*x^2 + x^3)/(1 - x - x^3 - x^4) = 1 + 2*x + 4*x^2 + 6*x^3 + 9*x^4 + 15*x^5 + 25*x^6 + 40*x^7 + ... is the g.f. for the number of binary strings of length where neither 101 nor 111 occur. [Lozansky and Rousseau] Or, equivalently, where neither 000 nor 010 occur.

Equivalently, a(n+2) is the number of length-n binary strings with no two set bits with distance 2; see fxtbook link. - Joerg Arndt, Jul 10 2011

a(n) is the number of words written with the letters "a" and "b", with the following restriction: any "a" must be followed by at least two letters, the second of which is a "b". - Bruno Petazzoni (bpetazzoni(AT)ac-creteil.fr), Oct 31 2005. [This is also equivalent to the previous two conditions.]

Let a(0) = 1, then a(n) = partial products of Product_{n>2} (F(n)/F(n-1))^2 = 1*1*2*2*(3/2)*(3/2)*(5/3)*(5/3)*(8/5)*(8/5)*.... E.g., a(7) = 15 = 1*1*1*2*2*(3/2)*(3/2)*(5/3). - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 13 2009

Number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i) - i <= r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=3, I={1}. - Vladimir Baltic, Mar 07 2012

The 2-dimensional version, which counts sets of pairs no two of which are separated by graph-distance 2, is A273461. - Gus Wiseman, Nov 27 2019

a(n+1) is the number of multus bitstrings of length n with no runs of 4 ones. - Steven Finch, Mar 25 2020

Continued fraction for sqrt(3).

Also coefficient of the highest power of q in the expansion of the polynomial nu(n) defined by: nu(0)=1, nu(1)=b and for n>=2, nu(n)=b*nu(n-1)+lambda*(n-1)_q*nu(n-2) with (b,lambda)=(1,1), where (n)_q=(1+q+...+q^(n-1)) and q is a root of unity. - Y. Kelly Itakura (yitkr(AT)mta.ca), Aug 21 2002

nu(0)=1 nu(1)=1; nu(2)=2; nu(3)=3+q; nu(4)=5+3q+2q^2; nu(5)=8+7q+6q^2+4q^3+q^4; nu(6)=13+15q+16q^2+14q^3+11q^4+5q^5+2q^6.

From Jaroslav Krizek, May 28 2010: (Start)

a(n) = denominators of arithmetic means of the first n positive integers for n >= 1.

See A026741(n+1) or A145051(n) - denominators of arithmetic means of the first n positive integers. (End)

From R. J. Mathar, Feb 16 2011: (Start)

This is a prototype of multiplicative sequences defined by a(p^e)=1 for odd primes p, and a(2^e)=c with some constant c, here c=2. They have Dirichlet generating functions (1+(c-1)/2^s)*zeta(s).

Examples are A153284, A176040 (c=3), A040005 (c=4), A021070, A176260 (c=5), A040011, A176355 (c=6), A176415 (c=7), A040019, A021059 (c=8), A040029 (c=10), A040041 (c=12). (End)

a(n) = p(-1) where p(x) is the unique degree-n polynomial such that p(k) = A000325(k) for k = 0, 1, ..., n. - Michael Somos, May 12 2012

For n > 0: denominators of row sums of the triangular enumeration of rational numbers A226314(n,k) / A054531(n,k), 1 <= k <= n; see A226555 for numerators. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 10 2013

From Jianing Song, Nov 01 2022: (Start)

For n > 0, a(n) is the minimal gap of distinct numbers coprime to n. Proof: denote the minimal gap by b(n). For odd n we have A058026(n) > 0, hence b(n) = 1. For even n, since 1 and -1 are both coprime to n we have b(n) <= 2, and that b(n) >= 2 is obvious.

The maximal gap is given by A048669. (End)

Hankel transform is [1,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...]. - Philippe Deléham, Mar 29 2007

Binomial transform gives [1,4,8,16,32,64,...] (A151821(n+1)). - Philippe Deléham, Sep 17 2009

Continued fraction expansion of (3+sqrt(21))/6. - Klaus Brockhaus, May 04 2010

Positive sum of the coordinates from the image of the point (1,-2) after n 90-degree rotations about the origin. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jul 06 2013

This sequence can be generated by an infinite number of formulas having the form a^(b*n) mod c where a is congruent to 3 mod 4 and b is any odd number. If a is congruent to 3 mod 4 then c can be 4; if a is also congruent to 3 mod 8 then c can be 8. For example: a(n)= 15^(3*n) mod 4, a(n) = 19^(5*n) mod 4, a(n) = 19^(5*n) mod 8. - Gary Detlefs, May 19 2014

This sequence is also the unsigned periodic Schick sequence for p = 5. See the Schick reference, p. 158, for p = 5.- Wolfdieter Lang, Apr 03 2020

Digits following the decimal point when 1/3 is converted to base 5. - Jamie Robert Creasey, Oct 15 2021

Decimal expansion of 13/99. - Stefano Spezia, Feb 09 2025