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A090996 Number of leading 1's in binary expansion of n. 2
0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,4

FORMULA

a(2^k-1)=k; a(A004754(k))=1; a(A004758(k))=2.

a(2^k-1)=k; for any other n, a(n) = a(floor(n/2)).

a(n) = f(n, 0) with f(n, x) = if n < 2 then n + x else f([n/2], (x+1)*(n mod 2)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 02 2007

EXAMPLE

In binary : 14=1110 and there are 3 leading 1's, so a(14)=3.

MATHEMATICA

Table[Length@First@Split@IntegerDigits[n, 2], {n, 30}] (* Gyorgy Birkas, Mar 9 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

a(n) = A007814(1+A030101(n)).

Sequence in context: A136256 A159864 A144790 * A089309 A126387 A038374

Adjacent sequences:  A090993 A090994 A090995 * A090997 A090998 A090999

KEYWORD

base,nonn

AUTHOR

Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Feb 29 2004

EXTENSIONS

Edited and corrected by Frank Adams-Watters (FrankTAW(AT)Netscape.net), Apr 08 2006. Sequence had accidentally been shifted left by one step, which was corrected and term a(0)=0 added by Antti Karttunen (His-Firstname.His-Surname(AT)gmail.com), Jan 01 2007.

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