Thursday 5 February 2015

an easy folding pattern puzzle

  This is a representation of a Woodall number.
A Woodall number is any natural number of the form n*(2^n) - 1
for some natural number n. The first few Woodall numbers are:  1, 7, 23, 63, 159, 383, 895, … (sequence A003261 in OEIS).  What is the Woodall number represented ?