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A154282
Dirichlet inverse of A154281.
4
1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Sequence is positive as often as negative.
Multiplicative because A154281 is. - Andrew Howroyd, Aug 05 2018
LINKS
FORMULA
Multiplicative with a(2^e) = (-1)^(e/2) if e is even and 0 is e is odd, and a(p^e) = 0 if p is an odd prime. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 27 2023
MATHEMATICA
nn = 95; a = PadRight[{1, 0, 0, 1}, nn, 0]; Inverse[Table[Table[If[Mod[n, k] == 0, a[[n/k]], 0], {k, 1, nn}], {n, 1, nn}]][[All, 1]] (* Mats Granvik, Jul 23 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = {my(e=valuation(n, 2)); if(e%2 == 0 && n == 1<<e, (-1)^(e/2), 0)} \\ Andrew Howroyd, Aug 05 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy,mult
AUTHOR
Mats Granvik, Jan 06 2009
STATUS
approved