OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
The next term is too large to display.
With the exception of 7 there are no primes in this sequence.
All numbers in this sequence are squarefree.
a(n) is divisible by a(k) for every k < n.
The sequence of number of digits of a(n), n >= 1, is 1, 1, 1, 4, 15, 47, 144, 436, 1313, 3946, 11846, 35546, 106648, 319954, 959872, 2879628, 8638896, 25916701, 77750117, 233250368, 699751120,... - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 21 2014
Each a(n) is by definition the same as the repetend of 1/3^n, viewed as a binary integer. E.g., 1/9 = .000111000111...; consequently a(2) = 000111 (base 2) = 7 (base 10) - Joe Slater, Nov 29 2016
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..7
W. Lang, On Collatz' Words, Sequences and Trees, arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2710 [math.NT], 2014 and J. Int. Seq. 17 (2014) # 14.11.7.
FORMULA
a(n) = (4^(3^(n-1)) - 1)/3^n for n>=1, a(0) = 1, with EulerPhi(1) = 1 = A000010(1). - Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 21 2014
MATHEMATICA
Table[(2^EulerPhi[3^n] - 1)/3^n, {n, 0, 10}]
PROG
(Magma) [(2^EulerPhi(3^n)-1)/3^n: n in [0..6]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 23 2014
(PARI) a(n)=(2^eulerphi(3^n)-1)/3^n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 29 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Artur Jasinski, Nov 19 2008
EXTENSIONS
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 28 2008
Offset corrected from Wolfdieter Lang, Feb 21 2014
Definition clarified by Joerg Arndt, Feb 23 2014
STATUS
approved