perl -e 'for my $i (1..63) {if(int(log(2**($i-1))/log(2)) != $i-1) {print "$i\n"}}' #### for my $i (1..63) { if(length(sprintf("%b",2**$i-1)) != length(sprintf("%b",2**($i-1)))) { print"$i\n"; printf("%b\n",2**($i-1)); printf("%b\n",(2**$i)-1); } }