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A175910
Take the left or right binary concatenation of the numbers 1 to n, whichever is greater, delete digits identical to corresponding digits in the other concatenation, condense the remaining digits, and convert to decimal.
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0, 2, 2, 2, 44, 42, 178, 812, 52, 11682, 44585, 52778, 3222, 727657, 15264354, 928184, 60925872, 15976986770, 4166367305, 785545793868, 11730991244, 11804109800746, 41522369301, 3574301245885612, 198659132140236
OFFSET
1,2
MATHEMATICA
Module[{l, r, d, ldump, larger, rdump}, l = {}; r = {}; Table[d = IntegerDigits[x, 2]; l = Flatten[{l, d}]; r = Flatten[{d, r}]; If[x > 1, ldump = l; rdump = r; While[First[ldump] == First[rdump], ldump = Rest[ldump]; rdump = Rest[rdump]]; If[First[ldump] == 1, larger = ldump, larger = rdump]; FromDigits[Pick[larger, OddQ[ldump + rdump]], 2], 0], {x, 1, DESIRED_NUMBER_OF_TERMS}]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
base,easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Dylan Hamilton, Oct 14 2010
STATUS
approved