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Congruence properties of the binary partition function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. D. Hirschhorn
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, N. S. W., Australia
J. H. Loxton
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, N. S. W., Australia

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We denote by b(n) the number of binary partitions of n, that is the number of partitions of n as the sum of powers of 2. As usual, two partitions are not considered to be distinct if they differ only in the order of their summands. It is convenient to define b(0) = 1.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1975

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