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A005735 Greatest k such that binomial(k,n) has fewer than n distinct prime factors.
(Formerly M2719)
+0
3
1, 3, 8, 14, 32, 62, 87, 169, 132, 367, 389, 510, 394, 512, 512, 1880, 1880, 1882, 2099, 1879, 1885, 2102, 3470, 3470, 4805, 4806, 4806, 3475, 4806, 4938, 4939, 5108, 5119, 6271, 5122, 5869, 10663, 10663, 10663, 7421, 10667, 10667, 10668, 11710, 11711 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Table 2 in Selmer's paper has a typo for n = 76. Selmer "cheats" to find a(n) for n>27. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 05 2007

REFERENCES

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

Selmer, Ernst S.; On the number of prime divisors of a binomial coefficient. Math. Scand. 39 (1976), no. 2, 271-281.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..500

Selmer, Ernst S.; On the number of prime divisors of a binomial coefficient. Math. Scand. 39 (1976), no. 2, 271-281.

MATHEMATICA

Join[{1}, Table[n=k; b=1; n0=Infinity; While[n++; b=b*n/(n-k); If[Length[FactorInteger[b]]<k, n0=n]; n<10*n0]; n0, {k, 2, 30}]] - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 05 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A005733, A129233.

Sequence in context: A055335 A123329 A129067 this_sequence A135872 A045263 A004733

Adjacent sequences: A005732 A005733 A005734 this_sequence A005736 A005737 A005738

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Pab Ter (pabrlos(AT)yahoo.com), May 26 2004

Edited by T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 05 2007

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