Evil number

In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative number that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion.

The first evil numbers are:

0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 39 ...[1]

These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence.

Numbers that are not evil are called odious numbers.

References

  1. ↑ "Sloane's A001969 : Evil numbers: numbers with an even number of 1's in their binary expansion". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation.
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