A006127 - OEIS (original) (raw)

1, 3, 6, 11, 20, 37, 70, 135, 264, 521, 1034, 2059, 4108, 8205, 16398, 32783, 65552, 131089, 262162, 524307, 1048596, 2097173, 4194326, 8388631, 16777240, 33554457, 67108890, 134217755, 268435484, 536870941, 1073741854, 2147483679, 4294967328, 8589934625

COMMENTS

For numbers m=n+2^n such that equation x=2^(m-x) has solution x=2^n, see A103354. - Zak Seidov, Mar 23 2005

Primes of the form x^x+1 must be of the form 2^2^(a(n))+1, that is, Fermat number F_(a(n)) (Sierpiński 1958). - David W. Wilson, May 08 2005

a(n) = n-th Mersenne number + n + 1 = A000225(n) + n + 1. Partial sums of a(n) are A132925(n+1). - Jaroslav Krizek, Oct 16 2009

a(n) is also the number of all connected subtrees of a star tree, having n leaves. The star tree is a tree, where all n leaves are connected to one parent P. - Viktar Karatchenia, Feb 29 2016

a(n) is the total number of inputs of a 2^n-to-1 multiplexer (data inputs plus n selection lines). - Andres Cicuttin, Jan 03 2026

REFERENCES

John H. Conway, R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus Press, p. 84.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Star Graph

EXAMPLE

a(0) = 1. There are n=0 leaves, it is a trivial tree consisting of a single parent node P.

a(1) = 3. There is n=1 leaf, the tree is P-A, the subtrees are: 2 singles: P, A; 1 pair: P-A; 2+1 = 3 subtrees in total.

a(2) = 6. When n=2, the tree is P-A P-B, the subtrees are: 3 singles: P, A, B; 2 pairs: P-A, P-B; 1 triple: A-P-B (the whole tree); 3+2+1 = 6.

a(3) = 11. For n=3 leaf nodes, the tree is P-A P-B P-C, the subtrees are: 4 singles: P, A, B, C; 3 pairs: P-A, P-B, P-C; 3 triples: A-P-B, A-P-C, B-P-C; 1 quad: P-A P-B P-C (the whole tree); 4+3+3+1 = 11 in total.

a(4) = 20. For n=4 leaves, the tree is P-A P-B P-C P-D, the subtrees are: 5 singles: P, A, B, C, D; 4 pairs: P-A, P-B, P-C, P-D; 6 triples: A-P-B, A-P-C, B-P-C, A-P-D, B-P-D, C-P-D; 4 quads: P-A P-B P-C, P-A P-B P-D, P-A P-C P-D, P-B P-C P-D; the whole tree counts as 1; 5+4+6+4+1 = 20.

In general, for n leaves, connected to the parent node P, there will be: (n+1) singles; (n, 1) pairs; (n, 2) triples; (n, 3) quads; ... ; (n, n-1) subtrees having (n-1) edges; 1 whole tree, having all n edges. Thus, the total number of all distinct subtrees is: (n+1) + (n, 1) + (n, 2) + (n, 3) + ... + (n, n-1) + 1 = (n + (n, 0)) + (n, 1) + (n, 2) + (n, 3) + ... + (n, n-1) + (n, n) = n + (sum of all binomial coefficients of size n) = n + (2^n). (End)

MAPLE

A006127:=(-1+z+z**2)/(2*z-1)/(z-1)**2; # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation

MATHEMATICA

Table[BitXor[i, 2^i], {i, 1, 100}] (* Peter Luschny, Jun 01 2011 *)

LinearRecurrence[{4, -5, 2}, {1, 3, 6}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 08 2023 *)

PROG

(Haskell)

a006127 n = a000079 n + n

a006127_list = s [1] where

s xs = last xs : (s $ zipWith (+) [1..] (xs ++ reverse xs))

(Python) print([2**n + n for n in range(34)]) # Karl V. Keller, Jr., Aug 18 2020

(Python)