OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The largest value of the ratio is C(2n, n). a(4) = 70 is the smallest as well as the largest such integer. The smallest number can arise in more than one ways. i.e. a(3) = (2*5*6)/(1*3*4) = (3*4*5)/(1*2*6) = 5.
a(n) is bounded below by the squarefree part of (2n)! and above by C(2n, n). When those bounds are equal, that is a(n); for example, a(4) = 70. When a(n) equals that lower bound, it is fairly easy to compute. That happens for all of the first 3400 terms, anyway.
Conjecture: a(n) always equals that lower bound. - Don Reble, Jul 01 2003
EXAMPLE
a(3) = (2*5*6)/(1*3*4) = 5. a(5) = (1*7*8*9*10)/(2*3*4*5*6) = 7.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy and Meenakshi Srikanth (menakan_s(AT)yahoo.com), Jun 26 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Ray Chandler and Don Reble, Jul 01 2003
STATUS
approved