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A002808 The composite numbers: numbers n of the form x*y for x > 1 and y > 1.
(Formerly M3272 N1322)
549
4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

The natural numbers 1,2,... are divided into three sets: 1 (the unit), the primes (A000040) and the composite numbers (A002808).

The number of composite numbers <= n (A065855) = n - pi(n) (A000720) - 1.

m is composite iff sigma(m)+phi(m)>2m. - Farideh Firoozbakht (mymontain(AT)yahoo.com), Jan 27 2005

The composite numbers have the semiprimes A001358 as primitive elements.

REFERENCES

T. M. Apostol, Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1976, page 2.

A. E. Bojarincev, Asymptotic expressions for the n-th composite number, Univ. Mat. Zap. 6:21-43 (1967). - In Russian.

G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. 3rd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1954, p. 2.

L. Panaitopol, Some Properties of the Series of Composed Numbers, J. Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics. 2(2): Article 38, 2000.

Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics, Wiley, 2005; see p. 51.

J. B. Rosser and L. Schoenfeld, Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers, Illinois J. Math. 6: 64-94 (1962).

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

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..17737 [composites up to 20000]

C. K. Caldwell, Composite Numbers

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Composite Number

Index entries for "core" sequences

FORMULA

a(n) = pi(a(n)) + 1 + n, where pi is the prime counting function.

A000005(a(n)) > 2. - [From Juri-Stepan Gerasimov (2stepan(AT)rambler.ru), Oct 17 2009]

A001222(a(n)) > 1. - [From Juri-Stepan Gerasimov (2stepan(AT)rambler.ru), Oct 30 2009]

A000203(a(n)) < A007955(a(n)). [From Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Mar 17 2011]

A066247(a(n)) = 1. [Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 05 2012]

MAPLE

t := []: for n from 2 to 20000 do if isprime(n) then else t := [op(t), n]; fi; od: t;

remove(isprime, [$3..89]); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 19 2007

A002808 := proc(n) option remember ; local a ; if n = 1 then 4; else for a from procname(n-1)+1 do if not isprime(a) then return a; end if; end do ; end if; end proc; [From R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Oct 27 2009]

MATHEMATICA

Composite[n_Integer] := FixedPoint[n + PrimePi[ # ] + 1 &, n + PrimePi[n] + 1]; Array[Composite, 71] (* from Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 13 2006 *)

Select[Range[2, 100], !PrimeQ[#]&] (* Zak Seidov Mar 05 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) A002808(n)={for(k=0, primepi(n), isprime(n++)&k--); n} [From M. F. Hasler (www.univ-ag.fr/~mhasler), Oct 31 2008]

(PARI) A002808(n)={ my(k=-1); while( -n + n += -k + k=primepi(n), ); n} [From M. F. Hasler (www.univ-ag.fr/~mhasler), Nov 11 2009]

(Haskell)

a002808 n = a002808_list !! (n-1)

a002808_list = filter ((== 1) . a066247) [2..]

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 04 2012

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000040, A018252, A008578, A065090.

a(n) = A136527(n, n).

Sequence in context: A088224 * A018252 A141468 A140209 A140347 A077091

Adjacent sequences:  A002805 A002806 A002807 * A002809 A002810 A002811

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy,core

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

I deleted an incomplete and broken link. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 16 2010

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