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A151799 Version 2 of the "previous prime" function: largest prime < n. 11
2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 7, 11, 11, 13, 13, 13, 13, 17, 17, 19, 19, 19, 19, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 29, 31, 31, 31, 31, 31, 31, 37, 37, 37, 37, 41, 41, 43, 43, 43, 43, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 59, 59, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 67, 67, 67, 67, 71, 71, 73, 73, 73, 73 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

3,1

COMMENTS

Version 1 of the "previous prime" function is "largest prime <= n". This produces A007917, the same sequence of numerical values, except the offset (or indexing) starts at 2 instead of 3.

Maple's "prevprime" function uses version 2.

See A007917 for references and further information.

LINKS

Daniel Forgues, Table of n, a(n) for n=3..100000

MAPLE

A151799 := n-> prevprime(n);

MATHEMATICA

Table[NextPrime[n, -1], {n, 3, 77}] (* From Jean-François Alcover, May 27 2011 *)

PROG

(Maxima) makelist(prev_prime(n), n,  3, 79);  [Bruno Berselli, May 20 2011]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000040, A007917, A007918, A151800.

Sequence in context: A093074 A136548 A007917 * A093841 A091937 A113637

Adjacent sequences:  A151796 A151797 A151798 * A151800 A151801 A151802

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jun 29 2009

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