Same as Pisot sequences E(3, 6), L(3, 6), P(3, 6), T(3, 6). See
A008776 for definitions of Pisot sequences.
Also least number m such that 2^n is the smallest proper divisor of m which is also a suffix of m in binary representation, see
A080940. -
Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 25 2003
Length of the period of the sequence Fibonacci(k) (mod 2^(n+1)). -
Benoit Cloitre, Mar 12 2003
Total number of Latin n-dimensional hypercubes (Latin polyhedra) of order 3. - Kenji Ohkuma (k-ookuma(AT)ipa.go.jp), Jan 10 2007
Number of different ternary hypercubes of dimension n. - Edwin Soedarmadji (edwin(AT)systems.caltech.edu), Dec 10 2005
For n >= 1, a(n) is equal to the number of functions f:{1, 2, ..., n + 1} -> {1, 2, 3} such that for fixed, different x_1, x_2,...,x_n in {1, 2, ..., n + 1} and fixed y_1, y_2,...,y_n in {1, 2, 3} we have f(x_i) <> y_i, (i = 1,2,...,n). -
Milan Janjic, May 10 2007
a(n) written in base 2: 11, 110, 11000, 110000, ..., i.e.: 2 times 1, n times 0 (see
A003953). -
Jaroslav Krizek, Aug 17 2009
Numbers containing the number 3 in their Collatz trajectories. -
Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 20 2012
a(n-1) gives the number of ternary numbers with n digits with no two adjacent digits in common; e.g., for n=3 we have 010, 012, 020, 021, 101, 102, 120, 121, 201, 202, 210 and 212. -
Jon Perry, Oct 10 2012
If n > 1, then a(n) is a solution for the equation sigma(x) + phi(x) = 3x-4. This equation also has solutions 84, 3348, 1450092, ... which are not of the form 3*2^n. -
Farideh Firoozbakht, Nov 30 2013
a(n) is the upper bound for the "X-ray number" of any convex body in E^(n + 2), conjectured by Bezdek and Zamfirescu, and proved in the plane E^2 (see the paper by Bezdek and Zamfirescu). -
L. Edson Jeffery, Jan 11 2014
If T is a topology on a set V of size n and T is not the discrete topology, then T has at most 3 * 2^(n-2) many open sets. See Brown and Stephen references. -
Ross La Haye, Jan 19 2014
Comment from Charles Fefferman, courtesy of
Doron Zeilberger, Dec 02 2014: (Start)
Fix a dimension n. For a real-valued function f defined on a finite set E in R^n, let Norm(f, E) denote the inf of the C^2 norms of all functions F on R^n that agree with f on E. Then there exist constants k and C depending only on the dimension n such that Norm(f, E) <= C*max{ Norm(f, S) }, where the max is taken over all k-point subsets S in E. Moreover, the best possible k is 3 * 2^(n-1).
The analogous result, with the same k, holds when the C^2 norm is replaced, e.g., by the C^1, alpha norm (0 < alpha <= 1). However, the optimal analogous k, e.g., for the C^3 norm is unknown.
For the above results, see Y. Brudnyi and P. Shvartsman (1994). (End)
Also, coordination sequence for (infinity, infinity, infinity) tiling of hyperbolic plane. -
N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 29 2015
The average of consecutive powers of 2 beginning with 2^1. -
Melvin Peralta and Miriam Ong Ante, May 14 2016
For n > 1, a(n) is the smallest Zumkeller number with n divisors that are also Zumkeller numbers (
A083207). -
Ivan N. Ianakiev, Dec 09 2016
Also, for n >= 2, the number of length-n strings over the alphabet {0,1,2,3} having only the single letters as nonempty palindromic subwords. (Corollary 21 in Fleischer and Shallit) -
Jeffrey Shallit, Dec 02 2019
Also, a(n) is the minimum link-length of any covering trail, circuit, path, and cycle for the set of the 2^(n+2) vertices of an (n+2)-dimensional hypercube. -
Marco Ripà, Aug 22 2022
The finite subsequence a(3), a(4), a(5), a(6) = 24, 48, 96, 192 is one of only two geometric sequences that can be formed with all interior angles (all integer, in degrees) of a simple polygon. The other sequence is a subsequence of
A000244 (see comment there). -
Felix Huber, Feb 15 2024
A level 1 Sierpiński triangle is a triangle. Level n+1 is formed from three copies of level n by identifying pairs of corner vertices of each pair of triangles. For n>2, a(n-3) is the radius of the level n Sierpiński triangle graph. -
Allan Bickle, Aug 03 2024
