# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a176686 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A176686 #8 Jul 24 2016 16:51:25 %S A176686 14,16,20,22,32,36,38,40,52,54,58,66,68,70,78,84,88,90,96,110,112,114, %T A176686 128,130,132,140,156,158,162,178,182,200,210,212,222,234,238,250,252, %U A176686 258,264,268,292,294,306,308,310,318,330,336,338,354,366,372,378,380 %N A176686 Numbers n such that n^2-1 are products of 3 distinct primes. %C A176686 14^2-1=195=3*5*13, 16^2-1=255=3*5*17, 20^2-1=399=3*7*19. %C A176686 All terms are even since n^2-1 for n odd is a multiple of 4. If m is a term, then (m-1, m+1) contains one prime and one nonsquare semiprime. - _Chai Wah Wu_, Mar 28 2016 %H A176686 Chai Wah Wu, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 %t A176686 Select[Range[6! ],Last/@FactorInteger[ #^2-1]=={1,1,1}&] %t A176686 Sqrt[#+1]&/@Select[Sort[Times@@@Subsets[Prime[Range[100]],{3}]], IntegerQ[ Sqrt[#+1]]&] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Jul 24 2016 *) %Y A176686 Cf. A006881, A007304, A014574, A046386 %K A176686 nonn %O A176686 1,1 %A A176686 _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, Apr 23 2010 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE