OFFSET
1,7
COMMENTS
Comment from R. K. Guy: David Singmaster (zingmast(AT)sbu.ac.uk) sent me, about 5 years ago, a game he'd received from Bodo Koppers. It is played with two heaps of beans. The move is to remove one heap and split the other into two nonempty heaps. I'm not sure if Koppers invented it, or got it from elsewhere. I do not think that he analyzed it, but Singmaster did.
LINKS
Reinhard Zumkeller, Rows n = 1..125 of triangle, flattened
FORMULA
a(x, y) = place of last zero bit of (x-1) OR (y-1).
PROG
(Haskell)
a053398 :: Int -> Int -> Int
a053398 n k = a007814 $ a003986 (n - 1) (k - 1) + 1
a053398_row n = map (a053398 n) [1..n]
a053398_tabl = map a053398_row [1..]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 04 2014
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STATUS
approved