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A020985 The Golay-Rudin-Shapiro sequence. +0
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1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003, p. 78.

J. Brillhart and P. Morton, A case study in mathematical research: the Golay-Rudin-Shapiro sequence, Amer. Math. Monthly, 103 (1996) 854-869.

A. Hof, O. Knill and B. Simon, Singular continuous spectrum for palindromic Schroedinger operators, Commun. Math. Phys. 174 (1995), 149-159.

LINKS

Joerg Arndt, Fxtbook

J.-P. Allouche and M. Mendes France, Automata and Automatic Sequences.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

FORMULA

a_0=1, a_2n = a_n, a_2n+1 = (-1)^n *a_n.

MAPLE

A020985 := proc(n) option remember; if n = 0 then 1 elif n mod 2 = 0 then A020985(n/2) else (-1)^((n-1)/2 )*A020985( (n-1)/2 ); fi; end;

CROSSREFS

Cf. A022155.

(-1)^A014081(n).

Sequence in context: A156734 A108784 A010555 this_sequence A034947 A097807 A014077

Adjacent sequences: A020982 A020983 A020984 this_sequence A020986 A020987 A020988

KEYWORD

sign,nice,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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