OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Or, write previous term in base 2, read in base 4.
a(1) = 2, a(n) = smallest power of 2 which does not divide the product of all previous terms.
Number of truth tables generated by Boolean expressions of n variables. - C. Bradford Barber (bradb(AT)shore.net), Dec 27 2005
From Ross Drewe, Feb 13 2008: (Start)
Or, number of distinct n-ary operators in a binary logic. The total number of n-ary operators in a k-valued logic is T = k^(k^n), i.e., if S is a set of k elements, there are T ways of mapping an ordered subset of n elements from S to an element of S. Some operators are "degenerate": the operator has arity p, if only p of the n input values influence the output. Therefore the set of operators can be partitioned into n+1 disjoint subsets representing arities from 0 to n.
For n = 2, k = 2 gives the familiar Boolean operators or functions, C = F(A,B). There are 2^2^2 = 16 operators, composed of: arity 0: 2 operators (C = 0 or 1), arity 1: 4 operators (C = A, B, not(A), not(B)), arity 2: 10 operators (including well-known pairs AND/NAND, OR/NOR, XOR/EQ). (End)
From José María Grau Ribas, Jan 19 2012: (Start)
Or, numbers that can be formed using the number 2, the power operator (^), and parenthesis. (End) [The paper by Guy and Selfridge (see also A003018) shows that this is the same as the current sequence. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 21 2012]
a(n) is the highest value k such that A173419(k) = n+1. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 03 2012
Let b(0) = 8 and b(n+1) = the smallest number not in the sequence such that b(n+1) - Product_{i=0..n} b(i) divides b(n+1)*Product_{i=0..n} b(i). Then b(n) = a(n) for n > 0. - Derek Orr, Jan 15 2015
Twice the number of distinct minimal toss sequences of a coin to obtain all sequences of length n, which is 2^(2^n-1). This derives from the 2^n ways to cut each of the de Bruijn sequences B(2,n). - Maurizio De Leo, Feb 28 2015
I conjecture that { a(n) ; n>1 } are the numbers such that n^4-1 divides 2^n-1, intersection of A247219 and A247165. - M. F. Hasler, Jul 25 2015
Erdős has shown that it is an irrationality sequence (see Guy reference). - Stefano Spezia, Oct 13 2024
REFERENCES
R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, Springer, 1st edition, 1981. See section E24.
D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 4A, Section 7.1.1, p. 79.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..11
A. V. Aho and N. J. A. Sloane, Some doubly exponential sequences, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1973), pp. 429-437, alternative link.
Jan Brandts and Apo Cihangir, Enumeration and investigation of acute 0/1-simplices modulo the action of the hyperoctahedral group, Special Matrices, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2017), pp. 158-201, arXiv preprint, arXiv:1512.03044 [math.CO], 2015.
John H. Conway, Sphere packings, lattices, codes and greed, pp. 45-55 of Proc. Intern. Congr. Math., Vol. 2, 1994, alternative link.
Jose María Grau and A. M. Oller-Marcén On the last digit and the last non-zero digit of n^n in base b, arXiv:1203.4066 [math.NT], 2012.
Richard K. Guy and J. L. Selfridge, The nesting and roosting habits of the laddered parenthesis, Amer. Math. Monthly 80 (8) (1973), 868-876.
Rudolf Ondrejka, Exact values of 2^n, n=1(1)4000, Math. Comp., 23 (1969), 456.
Rudolf Ondrejka, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, May 15 1976
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Irrationality Sequence, Quadratic Recurrence Equation, Coin Tossing.
FORMULA
a(n+1) = (a(n))^2.
1 = Sum_{n>=0} a(n)/A051179(n+1) = 2/3 + 4/15 + 16/255 + 256/65535, ..., with partial sums: 2/3, 14/15, 254/255, 65534/65535, ... - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 15 2003
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = A007404. - Amiram Eldar, Oct 14 2020
From Amiram Eldar, Jan 28 2021: (Start)
Product_{n>=0} (1 + 1/a(n)) = 2.
Product_{n>=0} (1 - 1/a(n)) = A215016. (End)
MAPLE
MATHEMATICA
2^2^Range[0, 10] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 20 2011 *)
PROG
(Magma) [2^(2^n): n in [0..8]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 20 2011
(PARI) a(n)=1<<2^n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 25 2011
(PARI) a(n)=2^2^n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 03 2012
(Haskell)
a001146 = (2 ^) . (2 ^)
a001146_list = iterate (^ 2) 2 -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 04 2012
(Python)
def A001146(n): return 1<<(1<<n) # Chai Wah Wu, Mar 14 2023
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved