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A332558 a(n) is the smallest k such that n*(n+1)*(n+2)*...*(n+k) is divisible by n+k+1. 15

%I #39 Jun 06 2021 02:53:54

%S 4,3,2,3,4,5,4,3,5,4,6,5,6,5,4,7,6,5,4,3,6,7,6,5,4,8,7,6,6,5,8,7,6,5,

%T 4,8,7,6,5,7,6,5,10,9,8,9,8,7,6,9,8,7,6,5,4,6,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,7,6,5,

%U 12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,8,7,6,11,10,9,8,7,6,5

%N a(n) is the smallest k such that n*(n+1)*(n+2)*...*(n+k) is divisible by n+k+1.

%C This is a multiplicative analog of A332542.

%C a(n) always exists because one can take k to be 2^m - 1 for m large.

%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A332558/b332558.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H David A. Corneth, <a href="/A332558/a332558.gp.txt">PARI program</a>

%H J. S. Myers, R. Schroeppel, S. R. Shannon, N. J. A. Sloane, and P. Zimmermann, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14000">Three Cousins of Recaman's Sequence</a>, arXiv:2004.14000 [math.NT], April 2020.

%F a(n) = A061836(n) - 1 for n >= 1.

%F a(n + 1) >= a(n) - 1. a(n + 1) = a(n) - 1 mostly. - _David A. Corneth_, Apr 14 2020

%p f:= proc(n) local k,p;

%p p:= n;

%p for k from 1 do

%p p:= p*(n+k);

%p if (p/(n+k+1))::integer then return k fi

%p od

%p end proc:

%p map(f, [$1..100]); # _Robert Israel_, Feb 25 2020

%t a[n_] := Module[{k, p = n}, For[k = 1, True, k++, p *= (n+k); If[Divisible[p, n+k+1], Return[k]]]];

%t Array[a, 100] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Jun 04 2020, after Maple *)

%o (PARI) a(n) = {my(r=n*(n+1)); for(k=2, oo, r=r*(n+k); if(r%(n+k+1)==0, return(k))); } \\ _Jinyuan Wang_, Feb 25 2020

%o (PARI) \\ See Corneth link

%o (Python)

%o def a(n):

%o k, p = 1, n*(n+1)

%o while p%(n+k+1): k += 1; p *= (n+k)

%o return k

%o print([a(n) for n in range(1, 85)]) # _Michael S. Branicky_, Jun 06 2021

%Y Cf. A061836 (k+1), A332559 (n+k+1), A332560 (the final product), A332561 (the quotient).

%Y For records, see A333532 and A333533 (and A333537), which give the records in the essentially identical sequence A061836.

%Y Additive version: A332542, A332543, A332544, A081123.

%Y "Concatenate in base 10" version: A332580, A332584, A332585.

%K nonn,look

%O 1,1

%A _Scott R. Shannon_ and _N. J. A. Sloane_, Feb 24 2020

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