Logo

Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!

Hints

Search: id:A003458
Displaying 1-1 of 1 results found. page 1
     Format: long | short | internal | text      Sort: relevance | references | number      Highlight: on | off
A003458 Erdos-Selfridge function: a(n) is the least number m > n+1 such that the least prime factor of binomial(m, n) is > n.
(Formerly M2515)
+0
1
3, 6, 7, 7, 23, 62, 143, 44, 159, 46, 47, 174, 2239, 239, 719, 241, 5849, 2098, 2099, 43196, 14871, 19574, 35423, 193049, 2105, 36287, 1119, 284, 240479, 58782, 341087, 371942, 6459, 69614, 37619, 152188, 152189, 487343, 767919, 85741, 3017321 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

E. F. Ecklund, Jr. et al., A new function associated with the prime factors of C(n,k), Math. Comp., 28 (1974), 647-649.

Lukes, R.F.; Scheidler, R.; and Williams, H.C. ``Further Tabulation of the Erdos-Selfridge Function.'' Math. Comput. 66, 1709-1717, 1997.

R. Scheidler and H. C. Williams, A method of tabulating the number-theoretic function g(k), Math. Comp., 59 (1992), 251-257.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..200 (from H. C. Williams)

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := Block[{k = n + 2, p = Table[Prime[i], {i, 1, PrimePi[n]}]}, While[ First[ Sort[ Mod[ Binomial[k, n], p]]] == 0, k++ ]; k]; Table[ f[n], {n, 1, 40}]

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n) = local(m, i, f):m=0:i=n+1:while(m<=n, i=i+1:m=factor(binomial(i, n))[1, 1]):i (from R. Stephan)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A067753 A129023 A152083 this_sequence A133339 A112267 A068985

Adjacent sequences: A003455 A003456 A003457 this_sequence A003459 A003460 A003461

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com)

EXTENSIONS

Extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Dec 01 2002

page 1

Search completed in 0.002 seconds

Lookup | Welcome | Find friends | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by N. J. A. Sloane (njas@research.att.com)

Last modified December 5 20:25 EST 2009. Contains 170428 sequences.


AT&T Labs Research