A243056 - OEIS

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A243056

If n is the i-th prime, p_i = A000040(i), then a(n) = i, otherwise the difference between the indices of the smallest and the largest prime dividing n: for n = p_i * ... * p_k, where p_i <= ... <= p_k, a(n) = (k-i); a(1) = 0 by convention.

0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 1, 4, 0, 0, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3, 1, 0, 7, 1, 8, 2, 2, 4, 9, 1, 0, 5, 0, 3, 10, 2, 11, 0, 3, 6, 1, 1, 12, 7, 4, 2, 13, 3, 14, 4, 1, 8, 15, 1, 0, 2, 5, 5, 16, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 17, 2, 18, 10, 2, 0, 3, 4, 19, 6, 7, 3, 20, 1, 21, 11, 1, 7, 1, 5, 22, 2, 0, 12, 23, 3, 4, 13, 8, 4, 24, 2

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OFFSET

1,3

LINKS

Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

FORMULA

a(1) = 0, for n>1, if n = A000040(i), a(n) = i, otherwise a(n) = A061395(n) - A055396(n) = A243055(n).

PROG

(Scheme) (define (A243056 n) (if (prime? n) (A049084 n) (A243055 n)))

CROSSREFS

Useful when computing A243057 or A243059.

A025475 (prime powers that are not primes) gives the positions of zeros.