[seqfan] Re: need help for a calculation

[David Applegate]

I'm pretty sure your sequence is A098294; I haven't checked carefully, so
there may be a fence-post, but since (3/2)^n=2^j can only happen for n=j=0,
I believe they are equal.

David Applegate

> From seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu Sat Jun 28 14:58:36 2014
> To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
> From: Frank Adams-Watters <franktaw at netscape.net>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:58:16 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: need help for a calculation

> You computed right up to where they diverge.  floor(3/2)^17) = 985 has 
> 10 digits, but A005378(17) = 11. Sorry.

> Franklin T. Adams-Watters

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Newman <davidsnewman at gmail.com>
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Sent: Sat, Jun 28, 2014 1:42 pm
> Subject: [seqfan] need help for a calculation

> I'm away from home and don't have access to my copy of Mathematica,
> otherwise I'd do this myself.

> How many binary digits are there in Floor [ (3/2) ^n ] ?

> The first 16 values that I've computed by hand seem to agree with 
> A005378.

> ex. for n=0    Floor[ (3/2)^0]=1  which is 1 in binary, so a(0)=1

> for n=1  Floor[3/2]=1, which is 1 in binary, so a(1)=1

> for n=2  Floor[9/4]=2, which is 10 in binary, so a(2)=2

> I'd be very pleasantly surprised if this continues since the quantity 
> being
> calculated is related to several unsolved problems.

> If anyone out there has a few minutes to continue the calculations I'd
> appreciate it.

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