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A003217
Maximum of minimum total weight for threshold functions of n Boolean variables.
(Formerly M2455)
0
0, 1, 3, 5, 9, 17, 35, 79, 209
OFFSET
0,3
REFERENCES
S. Muroga, Threshold Logic and Its Applications. Wiley, NY, 1971, p. 268.
S. Muroga, T. Tsuboi and C. R. Baugh, "Enumeration of threshold functions of eight variables," IEEE Transactions on Computers, 19 (1970), 818-825.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Noga Alon and Van H. Vu, Anti-Hadamard Matrices, Coin Weighing, Threshold Gates, and Indecomposable Hypergraphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 79, Issue 1, July 1997, Pages 133-160.
FORMULA
For asymptotics see the Alon-Vu article.
EXAMPLE
a(4)=9 because the threshold functions "majority of wwxxyz000" and "majority of wwwxxyz00" and "majority of wwwxxyyz0" cannot be described as majority of seven or five things, but no threshold function of w,x,y,z requires a majority of more than nine.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A251705 A351938 A018095 * A297011 A337780 A178717
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
STATUS
approved