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A334204
a(n) = A329697(A163511(n)).
12
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 0, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 6, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 0, 6, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 8, 3, 5, 4, 7, 3, 7, 6, 6, 2, 5, 4, 6, 3, 6, 5, 6, 2, 6, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 1, 5, 4, 5, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 5
OFFSET
0,6
COMMENTS
As the underlying sequence A163511 can be represented as a binary tree, so can be this:
0
|
...................0...................
0 1
0......../ \........2 1......../ \........1
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \ / \ / \
0 3 2 2 1 2 1 2
0 4 3 3 2 3 2 4 1 3 2 3 1 3 2 2
etc.
The nodes at the left edge are all zeros, and their right-hand children give positive integers, A000027.
Each left-hand leaning branch stays constant, because A329697(2n) = A329697(n).
The right-hand leaning branches are not necessarily monotonic. For example, a((2^6)-1) = 2 > 1 = a((2^7)-1), because A000040(7) = 17 is a Fermat prime (but A000040(6) = 13 is not), and therefore the latter is only one step away from a power of 2.
FORMULA
a(n) = A329697(A163511(n)).
a(n) = A334109(A334860(n)).
a(n) = a(2n) = a(A000265(n)).
For all n >= 0, a(2^n) = 0, a(2^n + 1) = n.
PROG
(PARI)
A005940(n) = { my(p=2, t=1); n--; until(!n\=2, if((n%2), (t*=p), p=nextprime(p+1))); t }; \\ From A005940
A054429(n) = ((3<<#binary(n\2))-n-1); \\ From A054429
A163511(n) = if(!n, 1, A005940(1+A054429(n)));
A329697(n) = if(!bitand(n, n-1), 0, 1+A329697(n-(n/vecmax(factor(n)[, 1]))));
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Jun 09 2020
STATUS
approved