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A090905
Left side of irregular triangle of natural numbers in which every row product is a multiple of the previous.
4
1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 27, 47, 87, 167, 327, 635, 1263, 2519, 5007, 10007, 19947, 39875, 79739, 159399, 318779, 637503, 1274999, 2549979, 5099903, 10199787, 20399535, 40799063, 81598083, 163196135, 326392259, 652784499, 1305568943, 2611137839
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Conjecture: For n > 4 the last term of the n-th group is 2p where p is the largest prime in the (n-1)th group. And these are the Bertrand primes.
EXAMPLE
The triangle goes as follows:
(1)
(2),
(3,4),
(5,6,7,8),
(9,10,11,12,13,14),
(15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26)...
MATHEMATICA
a = {{1, 1}}; Do[k = Last@ a[[i - 1]]; While[!Divisible[Pochhammer[Total@ a[[i - 1]], k], Pochhammer @@ a[[i - 1]]], k++]; AppendTo[a, {Total@a[[i - 1]], k}], {i, 2, 17}]; a (* Michael De Vlieger, Dec 15 2016 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Dec 13 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms from David Wasserman, Feb 10 2006
STATUS
approved