OFFSET
0,4
COMMENTS
In other words, a(n) is the greatest binary palindromic prefix of n.
LINKS
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
The first terms, alongside the binary representations of n and of a(n), are:
n a(n) bin(n) bin(a(n))
-- ---- ------ ---------
0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1
2 1 10 1
3 3 11 11
4 1 100 1
5 5 101 101
6 3 110 11
7 7 111 111
8 1 1000 1
9 9 1001 1001
10 5 1010 101
11 5 1011 101
PROG
(PARI) a(n, b=2) = { my (d=digits(n, b)); forstep (w=#d, 1, -1, my (h=d[1..w]); if (h==Vecrev(h), return (fromdigits(h, b)))); return (0) }
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
Rémy Sigrist, Dec 28 2019
STATUS
approved