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A135714
Number of primes of the form p(n)#/p(k) - 1, where 1 <= k <= n.
3
0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 0, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 2, 0, 3, 3, 5, 2, 2, 1, 5, 4, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 0, 3, 4, 0, 4, 1, 0, 1, 3, 0, 2, 2, 5, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 6, 3, 2, 4, 4, 0, 1, 2, 2, 4, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 0, 4, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3
OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
p(k) is k-th prime; p(n)# is n-th primorial, A002110(n). For the larger n, these are only counts of highly probable primes. Of the first 500 terms, the maximum occurs twice, a(366)=a(432)=7; the mode is 2, occurring 142 times.
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EXAMPLE
a(6)=4 because p(6)#=A002110(6)=30030 and 30030/3-1=10009, 30030/7-1=4289, 30030/11-1=2729 and 30030/13-1=2309 are all prime and there are no other primes of this form.
PROG
(PARI) a(n)= p=prod(k=1, n, prime(k)); sum(k=1, n, isprime(p/prime(k)-1))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Rick L. Shepherd, Nov 28 2007
STATUS
approved