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A335817
a(k) is the index of the first occurrence of 2*k-1 in A208884, or 0 if it does not occur.
2
1, 2, 13, 4, 6, 75, 22975, 11, 15, 10, 1417, 37, 17, 12, 573, 19, 16, 49, 28, 227, 34, 18, 26, 31, 1371, 20, 41, 36, 8181, 339, 38, 30, 40, 207, 43, 70, 1113, 91, 235, 32, 63, 203, 50, 60, 103, 48, 189, 42, 421, 57, 74, 98, 65, 259, 11997, 155, 44, 54, 199, 67
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
It is conjectured that A208884 contains all the odd numbers. If so, a(n) > 0 for every n.
LINKS
EXAMPLE
The first terms of A208884 are 1, 3, 3, 7, 3, so a(2*1-1) = 1, a(2*2-1) = 2, and a(2*4-1) = 4.
MATHEMATICA
b[1]=1; b[n_] := b[n] = #/2^IntegerExponent[#, 2] &@ (n + b[n-1]); A = Transpose@ {b /@ #, #} &@ Range[25000]; A = DeleteDuplicatesBy[ Sort@ A, First]; Last /@ TakeWhile[ A, A[[ (First[#] + 1)/2, 1]] == First@# &]
CROSSREFS
Cf. A208884.
Sequence in context: A358433 A344540 A338785 * A093079 A377841 A095417
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Giovanni Resta, Jun 25 2020
STATUS
approved