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A003166 Numbers whose square in base 2 is a palindrome.
(Formerly M3181)
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%I M3181 #58 Oct 23 2022 01:09:06

%S 0,1,3,4523,11991,18197,141683,1092489,3168099,6435309,12489657,

%T 17906499,68301841,295742437,390117873,542959199,4770504939,

%U 17360493407,73798050723,101657343993,107137400475,202491428745,1615452642807

%N Numbers whose square in base 2 is a palindrome.

%C Numbers k such that k^2 is in A006995.

%C The only palindromes in this sequence are 0, 1, and 3. See AMM problem 11922. - _Max Alekseyev_, Oct 22 2022

%D G. J. Simmons, On palindromic squares of non-palindromic numbers, J. Rec. Math., 5 (No. 1, 1972), 11-19.

%D N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

%H Don Knuth, <a href="/A003166/b003166.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50</a> [This table extends earlier work of Gus Simmons, Jon Schoenfield, Don Knuth, and Michael Coriand]

%H Patrick De Geest, <a href="http://www.worldofnumbers.com/square.htm">Palindromic Squares</a>

%H G. J. Simmons, <a href="/A002778/a002778.pdf">On palindromic squares of non-palindromic numbers</a>, J. Rec. Math., 5 (No. 1, 1972), 11-19. [Annotated scanned copy]

%H M. A. Alekseyev, <a href="http://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.7.722">Problem 11922</a>. American Mathematical Monthly 123:7 (2016), 722.

%e 3^2 = 9 = 1001_2, a palindrome.

%t Do[c = RealDigits[n^2, 2][[1]]; If[c == Reverse[c], Print[n]], {n, 0, 10^9}]

%o (PARI) is(n)=my(b=binary(n^2)); b==Vecrev(b) \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Feb 07 2017

%o (Python)

%o from itertools import count, islice

%o def A003166_gen(): # generator of terms

%o return filter(lambda k: (s:=bin(k**2)[2:])[:(t:=(len(s)+1)//2)]==s[:-t-1:-1],count(0))

%o A003166_list = list(islice(A003166_gen(),10)) # _Chai Wah Wu_, Jun 23 2022

%Y Cf. A002778 (base 10 analog), A029983 (the actual squares). In binary: A262595, A262596.

%Y Cf. A006995.

%K base,nonn,hard,nice

%O 1,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, _R. H. Hardin_

%E a(16) = 4770504939 found by _Patrick De Geest_, May 15 1999

%E a(17)-a(31) from _Jon E. Schoenfield_, May 08 2009

%E a(32) = 285000288617375,

%E a(33) = 301429589329949,

%E a(34) = 1178448744881657 from _Don Knuth_, Jan 28 2013 [who doublechecked the previous results and searched up to 2^104]

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