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A056582 Highest common factor (or GCD) of n^n and hyperfactorial(n-1), i.e., gcd(n^n, product(k^k) for k < n). 3

%I #18 Aug 03 2017 02:59:40

%S 1,1,4,1,1728,1,65536,19683,3200000,1,8916100448256,1,13492928512,

%T 437893890380859375,18446744073709551616,1,39346408075296537575424,1,

%U 104857600000000000000000000

%N Highest common factor (or GCD) of n^n and hyperfactorial(n-1), i.e., gcd(n^n, product(k^k) for k < n).

%C Sequence could be defined as: a(2) = 1, a(4) = 4, a(8) = 65536, a(9) = 19683; if p an odd prime: a(p) = 1 and a(2p) = (4p)^p; otherwise if n > 1: a(n) = n^n.

%H Chai Wah Wu, <a href="/A056582/b056582.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..200</a>

%H Mohammad K. Azarian, <a href="http://ijpam.eu/contents/2007-36-2/9/9.pdf">On the Hyperfactorial Function, Hypertriangular Function, and the Discriminants of Certain Polynomials</a>, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 36(2), 2007, pp. 251-257. MR2312537. Zbl 1133.11012.

%F a(n) = GCD(A000312(n), A002109(n-1)).

%F Except for n = 4, a(n) = A056583(n)^A056584(n) = A056583(n)^(n^2/A056583(n)) = (n^2/A056584(n))^A056584(n).

%e a(6) = gcd(46656, 86400000) = 1728.

%o (Python)

%o from gmpy2 import gcd

%o A056582_list, n = [], 1

%o for i in range(2,201):

%o m = i**i

%o A056582_list.append(int(gcd(n,m)))

%o n *= m # _Chai Wah Wu_, Aug 21 2015

%K nonn,easy

%O 2,3

%A _Henry Bottomley_, Jul 03 2000

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