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A023532 a(n) = 0 if n of form m(m+3)/2, otherwise 1. +0
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0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENT

From Stark: "alpha = 0.101101110111101111101111110 ... is irrational. For if alpha were rational, its decimal expansion would be periodic and have a period of length r starting with the k-th digit of the expansion.

"But by the very nature of alpha, there will be blocks of r digits, all 1, in this expansion after the k-th digit and the periodicity would then guarantee that everything after such a block of r digits would also be all ones.

"This contradicts the fact that there will always be zeros occurring after any given point in the expansion of alpha. Hence alpha is irrational."

REFERENCES

Harold M. Stark, An Introduction to Number Theory, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, eighth printing 1994, page 170.

FORMULA

Blocks of lengths 1, 2, 3, 4, ... ones separated by a single zero.

a(n)=mod(floor(((10^(n+2)-10)/9)10^(n+1-binomial(floor((1+sqrt(9+8n))/2), 2)- (1+floor(log((10^(n+2)-10)/9, 10))))), 10) - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), May 25 2004

a(n)=1-floor((sqrt(9+8n)-1)/2)+floor((sqrt(1+8n)-1)/2). - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), May 25 2004

MATHEMATICA

a = {}; Do[a = Append[a, Join[ {0}, Table[1, {n} ] ] ], {n, 1, 13} ]; a = Flatten[a]

CROSSREFS

Adjacent sequences: A023529 A023530 A023531 this_sequence A023533 A023534 A023535

Sequence in context: A096270 A123640 A022924 this_sequence A112690 A115971 A072165

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Clark Kimberling (ck6(AT)evansville.edu)

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Nov 06 2000

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