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Search: id:A117301
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| A117301 |
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Prime(n+3)*prime(n) - prime(n+1)*prime(n+2). |
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10
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| -1, -2, -12, -24, -12, -24, 56, -78, -48, 42, -184, -24, 152, 46, -260, -48, 102, -304, 110, 126, -60, 276, -250, -630, -24, -12, -24, 1272, -72, -1156, -294, 476, -24, -676, 580, -374, -60, 286, -740, 644, -24, -1206, -12, 1520, 1942, -1880
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OFFSET
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1,2
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COMMENT
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The number of negative values in this sequence appears to be consistently larger than the number of positive values. The following list gives the number of positive terms among the first n terms divided through the number of negative terms among the first n terms for various n.
n ratio
10^2 0.51515151515...
10^3 0.70940170940...
10^4 0.80212650928...
10^5 0.83826908582...
10^6 0.86339454584...
Cino Hilliard conjectures that this ratio converges and that there are infinitely many elements in the sequence whose absolute value is 12.
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EXAMPLE
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a(4) = prime(4)*prime(7) - prime(5)*prime(6) = 7*17 - 11*13 = -24
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MATHEMATICA
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Table[Prime[n]*Prime[n + 3] - Prime[n + 1]Prime[n + 2], {n, 1, 100}] - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com, Jun 27 2007
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PROGRAM
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(PARI) det2cont(n) = {local(m, p, x, D); m=0; p=0; for(x=1, n, D=prime(x)*prime(x+3)-prime(x+1)*prime(x+2); if(D<0, m++, p++); print1(D", ") ); print(); print("neg= "m); print("pos= "p); print("pos/neg = "p/m+.) }
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CROSSREFS
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Adjacent sequences: A117298 A117299 A117300 this_sequence A117302 A117303 A117304
Sequence in context: A012545 A009514 A112718 this_sequence A141079 A110821 A141586
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KEYWORD
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sign
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AUTHOR
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Cino Hilliard (hillcino368(AT)gmail.com), Apr 24 2006
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EXTENSIONS
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Edited by Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Jun 27 2007
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