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A336350
Square spiral of distinct nonnegative integers constructed by greedy algorithm, such that two terms on the same row or on the same column have no common one bit in their binary representations.
3
0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 6, 16, 3, 12, 32, 24, 64, 5, 48, 72, 128, 256, 17, 96, 512, 10, 33, 144, 320, 1024, 516, 192, 1280, 2048, 4096, 9, 130, 1536, 288, 2112, 4100, 8192, 514, 160, 6144, 16384, 32768, 13, 1152, 768, 10240, 20480, 65536, 18, 32800, 12288, 2304, 640
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
We can always extend the sequence with a power of 2 greater than any previous term, so the sequence is well defined.
For symmetry reasons, we obtain the same sequence when considering a clockwise or a counterclockwise square spiral, or when initially moving towards any unit direction.
LINKS
Rémy Sigrist, Colored representation of the spiral for -250 <= x <= 250 and -250 <= y <= 250 (where the hue is function of a(n) and black pixels indicate powers of 2)
EXAMPLE
The spiral begins:
264------80--262144---81920----5120---32896----2560----8224-------7
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49152 8192----4100----2112-----288----1536-----130-------9 65552
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3072 514 256-----128------72------48-------5 4096 131072
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4608 160 17 8-------4-------2 64 2048 17408
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73728 6144 96 6 0-------1 24 1280 640
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393216 16384 512 16-------3------12------32 192 2304
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524288 32768 10------33-----144-----320----1024-----516 12288
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1048576 13----1152-----768---10240---20480---65536------18---32800
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19---65792---18432----9216---33280--655360--266240-2097152-1048584
PROG
(PARI) See Links section.
CROSSREFS
See A336349 for a similar sequence.
Sequence in context: A269382 A253886 A253885 * A140692 A048640 A242353
KEYWORD
nonn,look,base
AUTHOR
Rémy Sigrist, Jul 19 2020
STATUS
approved