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A056966
In binary: write what is described (putting a leading zero on numbers which have an odd number of binary digits).
2
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 5, 3, 3, 6, 7, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0
OFFSET
0,15
EXAMPLE
a(54)=2 because 54 = 110110 base 2, which can be read as one 1 followed by zero 1's followed by one 0, i.e., 10 base 2 = 2 base 10.
PROG
(Python)
def A056966(n):
s = bin(n)[2:]
s = '0'*(len(s)&1)+s
return int('0'+''.join(s[i+1]*int(s[i])for i in range(0, len(s), 2)), 2) # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 12 2023
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Henry Bottomley, Jul 20 2000
STATUS
approved