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A051697 Closest prime to n (break ties by taking the smaller prime). 22
2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 11, 11, 11, 13, 13, 13, 17, 17, 17, 19, 19, 19, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 29, 29, 29, 31, 31, 31, 31, 37, 37, 37, 37, 37, 41, 41, 41, 43, 43, 43, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 59, 59, 59, 59, 61, 61, 61, 61, 67, 67, 67, 67, 67, 71, 71 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Nearest Prime

EXAMPLE

Closest primes to 0,1,2,3,4 are 2,2,2,3,3.

MATHEMATICA

a[n_] := (np = NextPrime[n]; pp = Prime[PrimePi[np] - 1]; Which[np > 2n-pp, pp, np < 2n-pp, np, True, pp]); a[0] = a[1] = 2; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 71}] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Jul 28 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Related sequences: A023186-A023188, A046929-A046931, A051650, A051652, A051697-A051702, A051728-A051730.

Sequence in context: A055256 A029147 A029097 * A065308 A035680 A103600

Adjacent sequences:  A051694 A051695 A051696 * A051698 A051699 A051700

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu)

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