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A001969
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Evil numbers: nonnegative integers with an even number of 1's in their binary expansion.
(Formerly M2395 N0952)
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300
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0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 63, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 75, 77, 78, 80, 83, 85, 86, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96, 99, 101, 102, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 114, 116, 119, 120, 123, 125, 126, 129
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OFFSET
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1,2
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COMMENTS
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This sequence and A000069 give the unique solution to the problem of splitting the nonnegative integers into two classes in such a way that sums of pairs of distinct elements from either class occur with the same multiplicities [Lambek and Moser]. Cf. A000028, A000379.
In French: les nombres païens.
Observe that if the last bit of a(n) is deleted, we get the nonnegative numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, ... in order.
The last bit in a(n+1) is 1 iff the number of bits in n is odd, that is, iff A010060(n+1) is 1.
So, taking into account the different offsets here and in A010060, we have a(n) = 2*(n-1) + A010060(n-1).
Therefore the first differences of the present sequence equal 2 + first differences of A010060, which equals A036585. QED (End)
Conjecture, checked up to 10^6: a(n) is also the sequence of numbers k representable as k = ror(x) XOR rol(x) (for some integer x) where ror(x)=A038572(x) is x rotated one binary place to the right, rol(x)=A006257(x) is x rotated one binary place to the left, and XOR is the binary exclusive-or operator. - Alex Ratushnyak, May 14 2016
Conjecture is true: ror(x) and rol(x) have an even number of 1 bits in total (= 2 * A000120(x)), and XOR preserves the parity of this total, so the resulting number must have an even number of 1 bits. An x can be constructed corresponding to a(n) like so:
If the number of bits in a(n) is even, add a leading 0 so a(n) is 2k+1 bits long.
Do an inverse shuffle on a(n), then "divide" by 11, rotate the result k bits to the right, and shuffle to get x. (End)
Numbers of the form m XOR (2*m) for some m >= 0. - Rémy Sigrist, Feb 07 2021
The terms "evil numbers" and "odious numbers" were coined by Richard K. Guy, c. 1976 (Haque and Shallit, 2016) and appeared in the book by Berlekamp et al. (Vol. 1, 1st ed., 1982). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 08 2021
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REFERENCES
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Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 1, 2nd ed., A K Peters, 2001, chapter 14, p. 110.
Hugh L. Montgomery, Ten Lectures on the Interface Between Analytic Number Theory and Harmonic Analysis, Amer. Math. Soc., 1996, p. 208.
Donald J. Newman, A Problem Seminar, Springer; see Problem #89.
Vladimir S. Shevelev, On some identities connected with the partition of the positive integers with respect to the Morse sequence, Izv. Vuzov of the North-Caucasus region, Nature sciences 4 (1997), 21-23 (Russian).
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).
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LINKS
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Jean-Paul Allouche, Benoit Cloitre, and Vladimir Shevelev, Beyond odious and evil, arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6214 [math.NT], 2014.
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FORMULA
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Note that 2n+1 is in the sequence iff 2n is not and so this sequence has asymptotic density 1/2. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Aug 23 2006
G.f.: Sum_{k>=0} (t(3+2t+3t^2)/(1-t^2)^2) * Product_{l=0..k-1} (1-x^(2^l)), where t = x^2^k. - Ralf Stephan, Mar 25 2004
a(2*n+1) + a(2*n) = A017101(n-1) = 8*n-5.
a(2*n) - a(2*n-1) gives the Thue-Morse sequence (3, 1 version): 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, .... A001969(n) + A000069(n) = A016813(n-1) = 4*n-3. - Philippe Deléham, Feb 04 2004
a(1) = 0; for n > 1: a(n) = 3*n-3 - a(n/2) if n even, a(n) = a((n+1)/2)+n-1 if n odd.
Let b(n) = 1 if sum of digits of n is even, -1 if it is odd; then Shallit (1985) showed that Product_{n>=0} ((2n+1)/(2n+2))^b(n) = 1/sqrt(2).
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MAPLE
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s := proc(n) local i, j, ans; ans := [ ]; j := 0; for i from 0 while j<n do if add(k, k=convert(i, base, 2)) mod 2=0 then ans := [ op(ans), i ]; j := j+1; fi; od; RETURN(ans); end; t1 := s(100); A001969 := n->t1[n]; # s(k) gives first k terms.
# Alternative:
seq(`if`(add(k, k=convert(n, base, 2))::even, n, NULL), n=0..129); # Peter Luschny, Jan 15 2021
# alternative for use outside this sequence
isA001969 := proc(n)
add(d, d=convert(n, base, 2)) ;
type(%, 'even') ;
end proc:
option remember ;
local a;
if n = 0 then
1;
else
for a from procname(n-1)+1 do
if isA001969(a) then
return a;
end if;
end do:
end if;
end proc:
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MATHEMATICA
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Select[Range[0, 300], EvenQ[DigitCount[ #, 2][[1]]] &]
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, 0, With[{m = n - 1}, 2 m + Mod[-Total@IntegerDigits[m, 2], 2]]]; (* Michael Somos, Jun 09 2019 *)
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PROG
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(PARI) a(n)=n-=1; 2*n+subst(Pol(binary(n)), x, 1)%2
(PARI) a(n)=if(n<1, 0, if(n%2==0, a(n/2)+n, -a((n-1)/2)+3*n))
(Magma) [ n : n in [0..129] | IsEven(&+Intseq(n, 2)) ]; // Sergei Haller (sergei(AT)sergei-haller.de), Dec 21 2006
(Haskell)
a001969 n = a001969_list !! (n-1)
a001969_list = [x | x <- [0..], even $ a000120 x]
(Python)
def ok(n): return bin(n)[2:].count('1') % 2 == 0
(Python)
from itertools import chain, count, islice
def A001969_gen(): # generator of terms
return chain((0, ), chain.from_iterable((sorted(n^ n<<1 for n in range(2**l, 2**(l+1))) for l in count(0))))
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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easy,core,nonn,nice,base
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AUTHOR
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EXTENSIONS
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More terms from Robin Trew (trew(AT)hcs.harvard.edu)
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STATUS
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approved
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