OFFSET
0,4
COMMENTS
Given a string S, write it as S = XYY...Y = XY^k, where X may be empty, and k is as large as possible; then k is the curling number of S.
LINKS
Benjamin Chaffin and N. J. A. Sloane, The Curling Number Conjecture, preprint.
Reinhard Zumkeller, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..8191
MAPLE
731 = 1011011011 in binary, which we could write as XY^2 with X = 10110110 and Y = 1, or as XY^3 with X = 1 and Y = 011. The latter is better, giving k = 3, so a(713) = 3.
PROG
(Haskell)
-- import Data.List (unfoldr, inits, tails, stripPrefix)
-- import Data.Maybe (fromJust)
a181935 0 = 1
a181935 n = curling $ unfoldr
(\x -> if x == 0 then Nothing else Just $ swap $ divMod x 2) n where
curling zs = maximum $ zipWith (\xs ys -> strip 1 xs ys)
(tail $ inits zs) (tail $ tails zs) where
strip i us vs | vs' == Nothing = i
| otherwise = strip (i + 1) us $ fromJust vs'
where vs' = stripPrefix us vs
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, May 16 2012
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,changed
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 02 2012
STATUS
editing