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A045542 Sub-perfect powers: perfect powers (squares, cubes etc.) minus 1. 9
3, 7, 8, 15, 24, 26, 31, 35, 48, 63, 80, 99, 120, 124, 127, 143, 168, 195, 215, 224, 242, 255, 288, 323, 342, 360, 399, 440, 483, 511, 528, 575, 624, 675, 728, 783, 840, 899, 960, 999, 1023, 1088, 1155, 1224, 1295, 1330, 1368, 1443, 1520, 1599, 1680, 1727 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Goldbach showed that Sum 1/a(n) = 1, see A214390, A214391.

The only primes in the sequence are 3,7,31,127,.. - Mersenne primes (A000668) - Moshe Levin, Dec 08 2011

REFERENCES

L. Bibiloni, P. Viader, and J. Paradis, On a Series of Goldbach and Euler, Amer. Math. Monthly, 113 (2006), pp. 206-220.

R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth and O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2nd edition, p. 66.

LINKS

_Reinhard Zumkeller_, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

L. Bibiloni, P. Viader, and J. Paradis, On a Series of Goldbach and Euler

FORMULA

a(n) = A001597(n + 1) - 1.

MATHEMATICA

f[upto_] := Union[Flatten[Table[n^pwr - 1, {pwr, 2, Log[2, upto+1]}, {n, 2, (upto+1)^(1/pwr)}]]]; f[1763] (* Moshe Levin, Dec 08 2011 *)

PROG

(Haskell)

a045542 n = a045542_list !! (n-1)

a045542_list = map (subtract 1) $ tail a001597_list

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 15 2012

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000668, A001597.

Sequence in context: A051211 A105173 A076683 * A192120 A031404 A105263

Adjacent sequences:  A045539 A045540 A045541 * A045543 A045544 A045545

KEYWORD

easy,nice,nonn

AUTHOR

William M. Glasgow (billg(AT)wakely.com)

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Jun 11 2002

STATUS

approved

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