OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
With offset 2, this is the second bit in the binary expansion of n. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Feb 13 2009
a(n) = A173920(n+2,2); in the sequence of nonnegative integers (cf. A001477) substitute all n by 2^floor(n/2) occurrences of (n mod 2). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 04 2010
REFERENCES
Michel Rigo, Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems, 2 vols., Wiley, 2014. See Example 1.34.
LINKS
R. Stephan, Some divide-and-conquer sequences ...
R. Stephan, Table of generating functions
FORMULA
a(n) = floor(log[2](4*(n+2)/3)) - floor(log[2](n+2)). - Antonio G. Astudillo (afg_astudillo(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 22 2003
For n >= 2, a(n-2)=1+floor(log[2](n/3))-floor(log[2](n/2)) - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 03 2003
G.f.: 1/x^2/(1-x) * (1/x + sum(k>=0, x^(3*2^k)-x^2^(k+1))). - Ralf Stephan, Jun 04 2003
MATHEMATICA
Table[IntegerDigits[n + 2, 2][[2]], {n, 0, 100}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 26 2019 *)
PROG
(Haskell)
a079944 n = a079944_list !! n
a079944_list = f [0, 1] where f (x:xs) = x : f (xs ++ [x, x])
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 14 2010, Mar 28 2011
(PARI) a(n)=binary(n+2)[2] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 07 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 21 2003
STATUS
approved