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Odd Triplets

ℹ️Published on Saturday, 25th April 2009, 06:00 am; Solved by 1171;
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Given the set $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, we define $f(n, k)$ as the number of its $k$-element subsets with an odd sum of elements. For example, $f(5,3) = 4$, since the set $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$ has four $3$-element subsets having an odd sum of elements, i.e.: $\{1,2,4\}$, $\{1,3,5\}$, $\{2,3,4\}$ and $\{2,4,5\}$.

When all three values $n$, $k$ and $f(n, k)$ are odd, we say that they make an odd-triplet $[n,k,f(n, k)]$.

There are exactly five odd-triplets with $n \le 10$, namely:
$[1,1,f(1,1) = 1]$, $[5,1,f(5,1) = 3]$, $[5,5,f(5,5) = 1]$, $[9,1,f(9,1) = 5]$ and $[9,9,f(9,9) = 1]$.

How many odd-triplets are there with $n \le 10^{12}$?



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