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Brauer Chain


A Brauer chain is an addition chain in which each member uses the previous member as an addend. A number n for which a shortest chain exists which is a Brauer chain is called a Brauer number.


See also

Addition Chain, Brauer Number, Hansen Chain

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References

Guy, R. K. "Addition Chains. Brauer Chains. Hansen Chains." §C6 in Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 111-113, 1994.

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Brauer Chain

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Brauer Chain." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BrauerChain.html

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