Also called fusc(n) [Dijkstra].
a(n)/a(n+1) runs through all the reduced nonnegative rationals exactly once [Stern; Calkin and Wilf].
If the terms are written as an array:
column 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
row 0: 0
row 1: 1
row 2: 1,2
row 3: 1,3,2,3
row 4: 1,4,3,5,2,5,3,4
row 5: 1,5,4,7,3,8,5,7,2,7,5,8,3,7,4,5
row 6: 1,6,5,9,4,11,7,10,3,11,8,13,5,12,7,9,2,9,7,12,5,13,8,11,3,10,...
...
then (ignoring row 0) the sum of the k-th row is 3^(k-1), each column is an arithmetic progression and the steps are nothing but the original sequence. - Takashi Tokita (butaneko(AT)fa2.so-net.ne.jp), Mar 08 2003
The above observation can be made more precise. Let A(n,k), n >= 0, 0 <= k <= 2^(n-1)-1 for k > 0, denote the entry in row n and column k of the left-justified array above.
The equations for columns 0,1,2,3,4,... are successively (ignoring row 0):
1 (n >= 1),
n (n >= 2),
n-1 (n >= 3),
2n-3 (n >= 3),
n-2 (n >= 4),
3n-7 (n >= 4),
...
and in general column k > 0 is given by
A(n,k) = a(k)*n -
A156140(k) for n >= ceiling(log_2(k+1))+1, and 0 otherwise.
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a(n) is the number of odd Stirling numbers S_2(n+1, 2r+1) [Carlitz].
Moshe Newman proved that the fraction a(n+1)/a(n+2) can be generated from the previous fraction a(n)/a(n+1) = x by 1/(2*floor(x) + 1 - x). The successor function f(x) = 1/(floor(x) + 1 - frac(x)) can also be used.
a(n+1) = number of alternating bit sets in n [Finch].
If f(x) = 1/(1 + floor(x) - frac(x)) then f(a(n-1)/a(n)) = a(n)/a(n+1) for n >= 1. If T(x) = -1/x and f(x) = y, then f(T(y)) = T(x) for x > 0. -
Michael Somos, Sep 03 2006
a(n+1) is the number of ways of writing n as a sum of powers of 2, each power being used at most twice (the number of hyperbinary representations of n) [Carlitz; Lind].
a(n+1) is the number of partitions of the n-th integer expressible as the sum of distinct even-subscripted Fibonacci numbers (=
A054204(n)), into sums of distinct Fibonacci numbers [Bicknell-Johnson, theorem 2.1].
a(n+1) is the number of odd binomial(n-k, k), 0 <= 2*k <= n. [Carlitz], corrected by
Alessandro De Luca, Jun 11 2014
a(2^k) = 1. a(3*2^k) = a(2^(k+1) + 2^k) = 2. Sequences of terms between a(2^k) = 1 and a(2^(k+1)) = 1 are palindromes of length 2^k-1 with a(2^k + 2^(k-1)) = 2 in the middle. a(2^(k-1) + 1) = a(2^k - 1) = k+1 for k > 1. -
Alexander Adamchuk, Oct 10 2006
It appears that the terms of this sequence are the number of odd entries in the diagonals of Pascal's triangle at 45 degrees slope. - Javier Torres (adaycalledzero(AT)hotmail.com), Aug 06 2009
Let M be an infinite lower triangular matrix with (1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, ...) in every column shifted down twice:
1;
1, 0;
1, 1, 0;
0, 1, 0, 0;
0, 1, 1, 0, 0;
0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0;
...
Member of the infinite family of sequences of the form a(n) = a(2*n); a(2*n+1) = r*a(n) + a(n+1), r = 1 for
A002487 = row 1 in the array of
A178239. -
Gary W. Adamson, May 23 2010
Equals row 1 in an infinite array shown in
A178568, sequences of the form
a(2*n) = r*a(n), a(2*n+1) = a(n) + a(n+1); r = 1. -
Gary W. Adamson, May 29 2010
Row sums of
A125184, the Stern polynomials. Equivalently, B(n,1), the n-th Stern polynomial evaluated at x = 1. -
T. D. Noe, Feb 28 2011
The Kn1y and Kn2y triangle sums, see
A180662 for their definitions, of
A047999 lead to the sequence given above, e.g., Kn11(n) =
A002487(n+1) -
A000004(n), Kn12(n) =
A002487(n+3) -
A000012(n), Kn13(n) =
A002487(n+5) -
A000034(n+1) and Kn14(n) =
A002487(n+7) -
A157810(n+1). For the general case of the knight triangle sums see the Stern-Sierpiński triangle
A191372. This triangle not only leads to Stern's diatomic series but also to snippets of this sequence and, quite surprisingly, their reverse. -
Johannes W. Meijer, Jun 05 2011
Maximum of terms between a(2^k) = 1 and a(2^(k+1)) = 1 is the Fibonacci number F(k+2). -
Leonid Bedratyuk, Jul 04 2012
Probably the number of different entries per antidiagonal of
A223541. That would mean there are exactly a(n+1) numbers that can be expressed as a nim-product 2^x*2^y with x + y = n. -
Tilman Piesk, Mar 27 2013
Let f(m,n) be the frequency of the integer n in the interval [a(2^(m-1)), a(2^m-1)]. Let phi(n) be Euler's totient function (
A000010). Conjecture: for all integers m,n n<=m f(m,n) = phi(n). -
Yosu Yurramendi, Sep 08 2014
Define a sequence chf(n) of Christoffel words over an alphabet {-,+}: chf(1) = '-'; chf(2*n+0) = negate(chf(n)); chf(2*n+1) = negate(concatenate(chf(n),chf(n+1))). Then the length of the chf(n) word is fusc(n) = a(n); the number of '-'-signs in the chf(n) word is c-fusc(n) =
A287729(n); the number of '+'-signs in the chf(n) word is s-fusc(n) =
A287730(n). See examples below. -
I. V. Serov, Jun 01 2017
The sequence can be extended so that a(n) = a(-n), a(2*n) = a(n), a(2*n+1) = a(n) + a(n+1) for all n in Z. -
Michael Somos, Jun 25 2019
Named after the German mathematician Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894), and sometimes also after the French clockmaker and amateur mathematician Achille Brocot (1817-1878). -
Amiram Eldar, Jun 06 2021
