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A038553 Maximum cycle length in differentiation digraph for n-bit binary sequences. 3
1, 1, 3, 1, 15, 6, 7, 1, 63, 30, 341, 12, 819, 14, 15, 1, 255, 126, 9709, 60, 63, 682, 2047, 24, 25575, 1638, 13797, 28, 475107, 30, 31, 1, 1023, 510, 4095, 252, 3233097, 19418, 4095, 120, 41943, 126, 5461, 1364, 4095, 4095, 8388607, 48, 2097151, 51150 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Length of longest cycle for vectors of length n under the Ducci map.

REFERENCES

N. J. Calkin, J. G. Stevens and D. M. Thomas, A characterizaytion for the lengths of cycles of the n-number Ducci game, Fib. Q., 43 (No. 1, 2005), 53-59.

O. N. Karpenkov, On examples of difference operators ..., Funct. Anal. Other Math., 1 (2006), 175-180.

Simmons, G. J., The structure of the differentiation digraphs of binary sequences. Ars Combin. 35 (1993), A, 71-88. Math. Rev. 95f:05052.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A111944.

Sequence in context: A089463 A136231 A113389 * A135896 A134144 A035342

Adjacent sequences:  A038550 A038551 A038552 * A038554 A038555 A038556

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jun 19 2006, Feb 24 2008

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