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A003508 a(1) = 1; for n>1, a(n) = a(n-1) + 1 + sum of distinct prime factors of a(n-1) that are < a(n-1).
(Formerly M0580)
10
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 18, 24, 30, 41, 42, 55, 72, 78, 97, 98, 108, 114, 139, 140, 155, 192, 198, 215, 264, 281, 282, 335, 408, 431, 432, 438, 517, 576, 582, 685, 828, 857, 858, 888, 931, 958, 1440, 1451, 1452, 1469, 1596, 1628, 1679, 1776, 1819, 1944 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

R. K. Guy reports, Apr 14 2005: In Math. Mag. 48 (1975) 301 one finds "C. W. Trigg, C. C. Oursler and R. Cormier & J. L. Selfridge have sent calculations on Problem 886 [Nov 1973] for which we had received only partial results [Jan 1975]. Cormier and Selfridge sent the following results: There appear to be five sequences beginning with integers less than 1000 which do not merge. These sequences were carried out to 10^8 or more." The five sequences are A003508, A105210-A105213.

This suggests that there may be infinitely many different (non-merging) sequences obtained by choosing different starting values.

All terms of these five sequences are distinct up to least 10^30. - T. D. Noe, Oct 19 2007

REFERENCES

Problem 886, Math. Mag., 48 (1975), 57-58.

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=1..2000

EXAMPLE

a(6)=8, so a(7) = 8 + 1 + 2 = 11.

MATHEMATICA

a[1] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = a[n - 1] + 1 + Plus @@ Select[ Flatten[ Table[ #[[1]], {1}] & /@ FactorInteger[ a[n - 1]]], # < a[n - 1] &]; Table[ a[n], {n, 54}] (from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Apr 13 2005)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A096460, A105221, A105233

Sequence in context: A065294 A188190 A026808 * A078662 A050048 A122456

Adjacent sequences:  A003505 A003506 A003507 * A003509 A003510 A003511

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), May 09 2000

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