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A004642 Powers of 2 written in base 3. 22
1, 2, 11, 22, 121, 1012, 2101, 11202, 100111, 200222, 1101221, 2210212, 12121201, 102020102, 211110211, 1122221122, 10022220021, 20122210112, 111022121001, 222122012002, 1222021101011, 10221112202022, 21220002111121, 120210012000012, 1011120101000101, 2100010202000202 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
When n is odd, a(n) ends in 1, and when n is even, a(n) ends in 2, since 2^n is congruent to 1 mod 3 when n is odd and to 2 mod 3 when n is even. - Alonso del Arte Dec 11 2009
Sloane (1973) conjectured a(n) always has a 0 between the most and least significant digits if n > 15 (see A102483 and A346497).
Erdős (1978) conjectured that for n > 8 a(n) has at least one 2 (see link to Terry Tao's blog). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Jan 10 2017
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane, The Persistence of a Number, J. Recr. Math. 6 (1973), 97-98.
LINKS
Yagub N. Aliyev, Digits of powers of 2 in ternary numeral system, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2023), 474-485.
Paul Erdős, Some unconventional problems in number theory, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2 (1979), pp. 67-70.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Ternary Expansions of Powers of 2, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 79, No. 3 (2009), pp. 562-588; arXiv preprint, arXiv:math/0512006 [math.DS], 2005-2008.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ternary.
MATHEMATICA
Table[FromDigits[IntegerDigits[2^n, 3]], {n, 25}] (* Alonso del Arte Dec 11 2009 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=fromdigits(digits(2^n, 3)) \\ M. F. Hasler, Jun 23 2018
(Magma) [Seqint(Intseq(2^n, 3)): n in [0..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Sep 10 2018
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000079: powers of 2 written in base 10.
Cf. A004643, ..., A004655: powers of 2 written in base 4, 5, ..., 16.
Cf. A004656, A004658, A004659, ..., A004663: powers of 3 written in base 2, 4, 5, ..., 9.
Sequence in context: A263720 A235609 A018351 * A346497 A185545 A001032
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved

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