A160761 The Kaprekar binary numbers in decimal.

9, 9, 9, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 45, 45, 49, 45, 49, 49, 45, 45, 49, 49, 45, 49, 45, 45, 45, 49, 49, 45, 49, 45, 45, 49, 45, 45, 45, 93, 93, 105, 93, 105, 105, 105, 93, 105, 105, 105, 105, 105, 105, 93, 93, 105, 105, 105, 105, 105, 105, 93, 105, 105, 105

Offset

1,1

References

M. Charosh, Some Applications of Casting Out 999...'s, Journal of Recreational Mathematics 14, 1981-82, pp. 111-118

D. R. Kaprekar, On Kaprekar numbers, J. Rec. Math., 13 (1980-1981), 81-82.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..64.

Juergen Koeller, The Kaprekar Number

Wikipedia, Kaprekar Number

Index entries for the Kaprekar map

Formula

1. Sort all integers from the number in descending order 2. Sort all integers from the number in ascending order 3. Subtract ascending from descending order to obtain a new number 4. Repeat the steps 1-3 with a new number until a repetitive sequence is obtained or until a zero is obtained. 5. Call the repetitive sequence's number a Kaprekar number, ignore zeros.

Example

The number 9 is 1001 in binary. The maximum number using the same number of 0's and one's is found and the minimum number having the same number of 0's and 1's is found to obtain the equation such as 1100 - 0011 = 1001. Repeating the same procedure always gives us the same number and pattern of 0's and 1's. Therefore 9 is one of the Kaprekar numbers. Numbers that end the procedure in 0 are excluded since they are not Kaprekar numbers.

Mathematica

nmax = 100; f[n_] := Module[{id, sid, min, max}, id = IntegerDigits[n, 2]; min = FromDigits[sid = Sort[id], 2]; max = FromDigits[Reverse[sid], 2]; max - min]; Reap[Do[If[(fpn = FixedPoint[f, n]) > 0, Sow[fpn]], {n, 1, nmax}]][[2, 1]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Apr 23 2017 *)

Prog

(Java) class pattern { public static void main(String args[]) { int mem1 = 0; int mem2 =1; for (int i = 1; i<3000; i++) {do { mem1 = mem2; String binaryi = Integer.toBinaryString(i); String binarysort = ""; String binaryminimum = ""; for (int n = 0; n< binaryi.length(); n++) { String g = binaryi.substring(n, n+1); if (g.equals("0")){ binarysort = binarysort+"0"; } else { binarysort = "1"+binarysort; binaryminimum = binaryminimum + "1"; } } int binrev1 = Integer.parseInt(binarysort , 2); int binrev2 = Integer.parseInt(binaryminimum , 2); int diff = binrev1 - binrev2; mem2 = diff; } while (mem2!=0 && mem2!=mem1); String memtobin = Integer.toBinaryString(mem1); int ones = 0; for (int t = 0; t<memtobin.length(); t++){ String o = memtobin.substring(t, t+1); if (o.equals("1")) ones++; } if (memtobin.length()!=ones) System.out.print(mem1+" "); } }}

Crossrefs

Cf. A099009, A099010, A090429, A069746, A163205.

Sequence in context: A206011 A192984 A069602 * A082049 A282242 A325320

Adjacent sequences: A160758 A160759 A160760 * A160762 A160763 A160764

Keyword

nonn,base

Author

Damir Olejar, May 25 2009

Status

approved