OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
The first two terms a(1)=a(2)=1 are included here but are not considered to be part of what one might call A026242-primes, in analogy of the usual primes A000040 obtained by applying the very same procedure to the set of all positive integers.
Since A026242 is not increasing, this sequence isn't, either. However, since the remaining "primes" > 1 are exactly the numbers used during the sieve, and for all m, the second m occurs m places after the first m in A026242, no number can occur twice here.
There is a stronger version of the sieve, which consists of considering all numbers "m", whether or not they have been crossed out earlier. When this is applied, then the result is the finite subsequence [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 50]. Eric Angelini calls these numbers, {2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 50}, "Biprimes of K = A026242".
LINKS
E. Angelini, Biprimes of K, Sep 17 2014
PROG
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler and Eric Angelini, Sep 17 2014
STATUS
approved