[seqfan] Re: A272717 question

[Neil Sloane]

Lars, Thanks for noticing this problem. I agree that something is wrong,
and your solution looks like the best (keep the leading zeros).
Can you do the necessary editing?

Best regards
Neil

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On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Lars Blomberg <larsl.blomberg at comhem.se>
wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> The sequence starts (giving the binary and decimal values):
>
> 1(1) -> 11(3) -> 01(1) -> 1011(11) -- this shows that leading 0's are to be
> kept.
>
> -> 111001(57) -> 110011(51) -> 010001(17) -> 111011(59)
>
> Here it seems that the leading 0 is being discarded, we should have
> 10111011(187)
>
> -> 111001(57) -> 110011(51) -> 010001(17) -> 10111011(187)
>
> Here the leading 0 in 010001 is kept.
>
>
>
> So it seems to me that leading 0's should be kept, and the sequence should
> start
>
> 1, 3, 1, 11, 57, 51, 17, 187, 953, 947, 913, 827, 313, 2867, 14609, ...
>
> Always discarding leading 0's leads to a loop
>
> 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, ...
>
>
>
> /Lars Blomberg
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