Vladimir Cepeda

The Merge Families of Greedy Mersenne Decomposition Occur at the Base-4 Digits of 1/π

Greedy Mersenne decomposition prices every position of an admitted window in closed form: its cost table is the bit length of a linear function of 2^m modulo 2^p - 1, with the straggler positions read off Pascal's triangle. This note prices the one phenomenon that closure leaves...