Some Properties of Nonstar Steps in Addi
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Hatem M. Bahig; Ken Nakamula
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Let n be the smallest possible length of addition chains for a positive integer n. Then Scholz conjectured that 2 n -1 ≤ n + n -1, which still remains open. It is known that the Scholz conjecture is true when ν n ≤ 4, where ν n is the number of 1's in the binary representation of n. In this paper, w