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A001837 Numbers n such that phi(2n+1) < phi(2n).
(Formerly M5406 N2349)
3
157, 262, 367, 412, 472, 487, 577, 682, 787, 877, 892, 907, 997, 1072, 1207, 1237, 1312, 1402, 1522, 1567, 1627, 1657, 1732, 1852, 1942, 2047, 2062, 2152, 2194, 2257, 2362, 2437, 2467, 2557, 2572, 2677, 2722, 2782 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Greg Martin (gerg(AT)math.toronto.edu) writes: I recently calculated the smallest solution of phi(30n+1) < phi(30n) (Amer. Math. Monthly 106 (1999), no. 5, 449-451); it has 1116 digits.

REFERENCES

J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 157, p. 51, Ellipses, Paris 2008.

V. L. Klee, Jr., Some remarks on Euler's totient function, Amer. Math. Monthly, 54 (1947), 332.

_Jeffrey Shallit_, personal communication.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

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

LINKS

Donovan Johnson, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

MAPLE

with(numtheory, phi); f := proc(n) if phi(2*n+1) < phi(2*n) then RETURN(n) fi end;

MATHEMATICA

Select[ Range[4000], EulerPhi[2# + 1] < EulerPhi[2# ] & ]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000010.

Sequence in context: A020356 A142367 A216498 * A142581 A140625 A142874

Adjacent sequences:  A001834 A001835 A001836 * A001838 A001839 A001840

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

STATUS

approved

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