login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A166008
Number of ones in the binary representation of the average of twin prime pairs.
1
1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 6, 3, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 2, 4, 4, 3, 2, 6, 8, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 7, 8, 5, 7, 6, 8, 8, 8, 3, 3, 2, 4, 6, 7, 6, 4, 4, 6, 8, 3, 5, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 4, 4, 6, 7, 6
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = A000120(A014574(n)). - Michel Marcus, Dec 19 2019
EXAMPLE
Third twin prime pair = (11,13) with average 12 = 1100_2, with 2 ones, so a(3)=2.
MATHEMATICA
seq={1}; Do[If[And @@ PrimeQ[6n + {-1, 1}], AppendTo[seq, DigitCount[6n, 2, 1]]], {n, 1, 600}]; seq (* Amiram Eldar, Dec 19 2019 *)
DigitCount[#, 2, 1]&/@(Mean/@Select[Partition[Prime[Range[1000]], 2, 1], #[[2]]- #[[1]] == 2&]) (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 12 2021 *)
PROG
(Magma) [&+Intseq(p+1, 2):p in PrimesUpTo(3000)|IsPrime(p+2)]; // Marius A. Burtea, Dec 19 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
base,nonn
AUTHOR
Steven Lubars (lubars(AT)gmail.com), Oct 03 2009
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Amiram Eldar, Dec 19 2019
STATUS
approved