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A079780 a(n) = largest prime <= n*prime(n). 1
2, 5, 13, 23, 53, 73, 113, 151, 199, 283, 337, 443, 523, 601, 701, 839, 997, 1097, 1259, 1409, 1531, 1733, 1907, 2131, 2423, 2621, 2777, 2971, 3137, 3389, 3931, 4177, 4519, 4723, 5209, 5431, 5807, 6173, 6491, 6917, 7333, 7591, 8209, 8467, 8863, 9151, 9907 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

MAPLE

With exception of first term: seq(prevprime(n*ithprime(n)), n=2..40);

MATHEMATICA

PrevPrim[n_] := Block[{k = n - 1}, While[ !PrimeQ[k], k-- ]; k]; Table[ Abs[ PrevPrim[ n*Prime[n]]], {n, 1, 50}]

PROG

(PARI) for(n=1, 47, print1(precprime(n*prime(n)), ", "))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A079779.

a(n) is the largest prime < A079779(n).

Sequence in context: A049779 A106009 A194552 * A178621 A048871 A072921

Adjacent sequences:  A079777 A079778 A079779 * A079781 A079782 A079783

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Amarnath Murthy (amarnath_murthy(AT)yahoo.com), Feb 03 2003

EXTENSIONS

Edited and extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de) and Mark Hudson (mrmarkhudson(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 04 2003

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