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OEIS A000069: Odious numbers

Author
Mike Breault
Published
Thu 12 Dec 2024
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Odious numbers are the nonnegative integers with an odd number of 1s in their binary expansion. In this episode we explore the surprising symmetries they reveal, including the Lamberk–Moser theorem that makes the odious and evil sets share identical multisets of pairwise sums, and the Thoomor sequence that marks their positions. We also touch on why powers of two are always odious, the status of Mersenne primes, the self-referential relation A(n) = 2A(n), and the odious-multiple bound, weaving together binary structure and additive number theory.


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