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A076709 Factors in factorizations of composite numbers into at least 2 factors >1. 1
2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 5, 2, 6, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 7, 3, 5, 2, 8, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 9, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 2, 10, 2, 2, 5, 4, 5, 3, 7, 2, 11, 2, 12, 2, 2, 6, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 8, 4, 6, 5, 5, 2, 13, 3, 9, 3, 3, 3, 2, 14, 2, 2, 7, 4, 7, 2, 15, 2, 3, 5, 3, 10, 5, 6, 2, 16, 2, 2, 8, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Each factorization is given in nondecreasing order. To determine which of two factorizations a_1 * a_2 * ... * a_r and b_1 * ... * b_s (of the same number) comes first, find the smallest index k such that a_k != b_k. If k=r then the a-factorization comes first. If k=s the b-factorization comes first. Otherwise, if a_k < b_k then the a-factorization comes first; if b_k < a_k the b-factorization comes first.

LINKS

Donald S. McDonald, Posting to sci.math newsgroup, Feb 07 1999

EXAMPLE

The first 20 terms come from the factorizations of 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12: (4)=2.2, (6)=2.3, (8)=2.4=2.2.2, (9)=3.3, (10)=2.5, (12)=2.6=2.2.3=3.4

MATHEMATICA

mf[1, ds_] := {{}}; mf[n_, {}] := {}; mf[n_, ds_] := mf[n, ds]=If[Mod[n, ds[[1]]]==0, RotateRight[Join[Prepend[ #, ds[[1]]]&/@mf[n/ds[[1]], ds], RotateLeft[mf[n, Drop[ds, 1]]]]], mf[n, Drop[ds, 1]]]; mf[n_] := mf[n, Drop[Divisors[n], 1]]; Flatten[Drop[mf[ # ], 1]&/@Range[50]]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A037025.

Sequence in context: A092964 A183368 A156862 * A110021 A036013 A126336

Adjacent sequences:  A076706 A076707 A076708 * A076710 A076711 A076712

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Donald S. McDonald (don.mcdonald(AT)paradise.net.nz), Oct 26 2002

EXTENSIONS

Edited by Dean Hickerson (dean.hickerson(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 06 2002

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