The 2-adic valuations of Stirling numbers of the second kind (Q2890255)

From the authors' abstract: The authors investigate the 2-adic valuations of the Stirling numbers \(S(n,k)\) of the second kind in this paper. They show that \(v_2(S(4i,5)) =v_2(S(4i+3,5))\) if and only if \(i \not\equiv 7\) (mod 32). This confirms a conjecture of \textit{T. Amdeberhan, D. Manna} and \textit{V. H. Moll} posed in [Exp. Math. 17, No. 1, 69--82 (2008; Zbl 1218.11024)]. They also show that \(v_2(S(2^n+1,k+1)) = s_2(n)-1\) for any \(n \in {\mathbb N}\), where \(s_2(n)\) is the sum of binary digits of \(n\). This proves another conjecture of Amdeberhan, Manna and Moll.