Re: [math-fun] parity of floor(2^n / n)
(This may be asking way too much: I don't even know how to prove that the floor of 2^n / n is odd for infinitely many values of n.)
thinking about this some more, the technique i described shows this easily. let p be an odd prime, or even a pseudoprime to base 2. we will try to find such n of the form 2^k p . for k >= 0 , we have the congruence 2^(2^k p) = 2^2^k mod 2(2^k p) . thus, for the desired floor to be odd, it is sufficient to have 2^2^k >= 2^k p and 2^2^k < 2(2^k p) , which means that p must be in the range 2^(2^k - k - 1) < p <= 2^(2^k - k) . for each k >= 2 , there are primes in that range, by the theorem often called "bertrand's postulate". examples: 2^2 * 3 , 2^3 * 17, 2^4 * 2465 , ... (2465 is pseudoprime to base 2.) mike
mreid>> (This may be asking way too much: I don't even know
how to prove that the floor of 2^n / n is odd for infinitely many values of n.)
Note that n = A090659 plus its conjectured continuation, 25, 91, 703, 1891, 12403, 38503,79003 ,88831 ,146611,188191, 218791, 269011, 286903, 385003, 497503, 597871, 736291, 765703, 954271, 1056331, 1314631, 1869211, 2741311, 3270403, 3913003, 4255903 ,4686391 ,5292631 gives all odds. --rwg
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