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A007546 Number of steps to compute n-th prime in PRIMEGAME (fast version).
(Formerly M5074)
6
19, 69, 280, 707, 2363, 3876, 8068, 11319, 19201, 36866, 45551, 75224, 101112, 117831, 152025, 215384, 293375, 327020, 428553, 507519, 555694, 700063, 808331, 989526, 1273490, 1434366, 1530213, 1710923, 1818254, 2019962, 2833089, 3104685 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

J. H. Conway, FRACTRAN: a simple universal programming language for arithmetic, in T. M. Cover and Gopinath, eds., Open Problems in Communication and Computation, Springer, NY 1987, pp. 4-26.

R. K. Guy, Conway's prime producing machine. Math. Mag. 56 (1983), no. 1, 26-33.

D. Olivastro, Ancient Puzzles. Bantam Books, NY, 1993, p. 21.

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

LINKS

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

MAPLE

with (numtheory): f:= proc(n) local l, b, d; l:= sort([divisors (n)[]]); b:= l[nops(l)-1]; n-1 +(6*n+2)*(n-b) +2*add (floor (n/d), d=b..n-1) end: a:= proc(n) option remember; `if` (n=1, f(2), a(n-1) +add (f(i), i=ithprime (n-1)+1..ithprime (n))) end: seq (a(n), n=1..40); # Alois P. Heinz, Aug 12 2009

CROSSREFS

Cf. A007542, A007547.

Sequence in context: A044157 A044538 A204675 * A007547 A010007 A172078

Adjacent sequences:  A007543 A007544 A007545 * A007547 A007548 A007549

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Aug 12 2009

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