Examples and Characterization
The first few polite numbers are
- 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, ... (sequence A138591 in OEIS).
The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two. It follows from the Lambek–Moser theorem that the nth polite number is ƒ(n + 1), where
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