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A297405 Binary "cubes"; numbers whose binary representation consists of three consecutive identical blocks. 3

%I #37 Jul 05 2022 16:02:40

%S 7,42,63,292,365,438,511,2184,2457,2730,3003,3276,3549,3822,4095,

%T 16912,17969,19026,20083,21140,22197,23254,24311,25368,26425,27482,

%U 28539,29596,30653,31710,32767,133152,137313,141474,145635,149796,153957,158118,162279,166440,170601,174762,178923,183084,187245

%N Binary "cubes"; numbers whose binary representation consists of three consecutive identical blocks.

%C Alternatively, numbers of the form k*(4^n + 2^n + 1), where 2^(n-1) <= k < 2^n.

%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A297405/b297405.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Daniel M. Kane, Carlo Sanna, and Jeffrey Shallit, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04483">Waring's Theorem for Binary Powers</a>, arXiv:1801.04483 [math.NT], 2018.

%H <a href="/index/Bi#binary">Index entries for sequences related to binary expansion of n</a>

%F a(n) = n*(1 + 2^p + 4^p) with p = 1 + floor(log_2(n)). - _Alois P. Heinz_, Dec 29 2017

%F G.f.: (7*x + Sum_{n>=1} (4^n + 3*8^n + (2^n + 2*4^n - 3*8^n)*x)*x^(2^n))/(1-x)^2. - _Robert Israel_, Dec 31 2017

%e 42 in base 2 is 101010, which consists of three copies of the block "10".

%p a:= n-> (p-> n*(1+2^p+4^p))(1+ilog2(n)):

%p seq(a(n), n=1..50); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Dec 29 2017

%t bc[n_]:=FromDigits[Join[n,n,n],2]; Flatten[Table[bc/@Select[Tuples[ {1,0},n],#[[1]] == 1&],{n,6}]]//Union (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Oct 09 2021 *)

%o (Python)

%o def a(n): return int(bin(n)[2:]*3, 2)

%o print([a(n) for n in range(1, 46)]) # _Michael S. Branicky_, Jul 04 2022

%o # Alternative:

%o def A297405(n):

%o p = n.bit_length()

%o return n * (1 + 2**p + 4**p)

%o print([A297405(n) for n in range(1, 46)]) # _Peter Luschny_, Jul 05 2022

%o (PARI) a(n) = n=binary(n); fromdigits(concat([n, n, n]) , 2) \\ _Iain Fox_, Jul 04 2022

%Y Cf. A020330, which is the corresponding sequence for squares.

%Y Subsequence of A121016.

%K nonn,base

%O 1,1

%A _Jeffrey Shallit_, Dec 29 2017

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