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%I #14 Mar 16 2021 18:36:04
%S 0,0,0,0,1,2,4,8,2,2,4,8,4,8,16,32,0,2,4,8,8,2,4,8,16,32,64,8,8,8,8,
%T 64,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,32,8,8,16,32,64,32,8,4,8,8,4,4,8,8,4,8,8,64,8,
%U 8,16,8,16,32,64,64,8,8,16,32,64,32,8,16,32,64,4,8,8,16,32,64,16,32,64,8,8
%N Largest proper substring of 2^n that is a power of 2 (0 if none).
%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A033921/b033921.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000</a>
%e 2^15={32}768, so a(15)=32.
%p for n from 0 to 100 do
%p L[n]:= sprintf("%d",2^n);
%p A[n]:= 0;
%p for k from n-1 by -1 to 0 do
%p if StringTools[Search](L[k],L[n]) <> 0 then
%p A[n]:= 2^k; break
%p fi
%p od
%p od:
%p seq(A[n],n=0..100); # _Robert Israel_, Aug 16 2018
%Y Cf. A000079.
%K nonn,base
%O 0,6
%A _N. J. A. Sloane_
%E More terms from _Patrick De Geest_, Jun 15 1998