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A003320 Max_{k=0..n} k^(n-k).
(Formerly M1198)
1
1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 9, 27, 81, 256, 1024, 4096, 16384, 78125, 390625, 1953125, 10077696, 60466176, 362797056, 2176782336, 13841287201, 96889010407, 678223072849, 4747561509943, 35184372088832, 281474976710656, 2251799813685248 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,4

REFERENCES

D. Easdown, Minimal faithful permutation and transformation representations of groups and semigroups, Contemporary Math. (1992), Vol. 131 (Part 3), 75-84.

I. Tomescu, Introducere in Combinatorica. Editura Tehnica, Bucharest, 1972, p. 231.

R. Gray and J. D. Mitchell, Largest subsemigroups of the full transformation monoid, Discrete Math., 308 (2008), 4801-4810.

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

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..100

EXAMPLE

a(5) = max(5^0,4^1,3^2,2^3,1^4,0^5) = max(1,4,9,8,1,0) = 9.

MATHEMATICA

Join[{1}, Max[#]&/@Table[k^(n-k), {n, 25}, {k, n}]] (* From Harvey P. Dale, June 20 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A031435, A003992.

Sequence in context: A112706 A110138 A148085 * A007876 A176068 A005095

Adjacent sequences:  A003317 A003318 A003319 * A003321 A003322 A003323

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), R. K. Guy

EXTENSIONS

Easdown reference from Michail Kats (KatsMM(AT)info.sgu.ru)

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Aug 21 2000

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