Binary Representation

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Soumitra Das
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Binary Representation

Unread post by Soumitra Das » Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:37 pm

Let for any positive integer $n$,$B(n)$ be the number of 1's in it's binary representation.Prove that $$B(nm) \geq \max{B(n),B(m)}$$ ,where $n,m \in N$ .

Ragib Farhat Hasan
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Re: Binary Representation

Unread post by Ragib Farhat Hasan » Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:43 am

Can you explain the RHS of the equation $B(nm) \geq \max{B(n),B(m)}$ ?

I mean, do we multiply or, add or, individually consider the maximum values of $B(n)$ and $B(m)$?

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