OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Highly composite number
EXAMPLE
First rows read: 1; 1,2; 3; 1,2,4; 5; 1,3,6; 7; 2,4,8; 9; 5,10; 11; 1,2,3,6,12;...
6 has four divisors (1, 2, 3 and 6). Of those divisors, 1, 3 and 6 appear in row 6.
a. The divisors of 6 include four multiples of 1 (1, 2, 3 and 6); two multiples of 3 (3 and 6), and one multiple of 6 (6). No positive integer smaller than 6 has more than three multiples of 1 among its divisors; hence, 1 appears in row 6. Also, no positive integer smaller than 6 has more than one multiple of 3 among its divisors, or has any multiple of 6 among its divisors. Hence, 3 and 6 both appear in row 6.
b. On the other hand, although 6 includes two multiples of 2 among its divisors (2 and 6), so does a smaller positive integer (4, whose even divisors are 2 and 4). Accordingly, 2 is not included in row 6.
The divisors of 6 that appear in row 6 are therefore 1, 3 and 6. Note that 1, 3 and 6 equal 6/6, 6/2 and 6/1 respectively, and all of the denominators in those fractions are highly composite numbers (A002182).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf
AUTHOR
Matthew Vandermast, Nov 27 2010
STATUS
approved