OFFSET
1,5
COMMENTS
A sequence is gapless if it covers an unbroken interval of positive integers. For example, the multiset {2,3,5,5,6,9} has three maximal gapless submultisets: {2,3}, {5,5,6}, {9}.
A prime index of n is a number m such that prime(m) divides n. The multiset of prime indices of n is row n of A112798.
This is a bisection of A287170, but is important in its own right because the even numbers are exactly those whose prime indices begin with 1.
FORMULA
a(n) = A287170(2n).
EXAMPLE
The prime indices of 2*9282 are {1,1,2,4,6,7}, with maximal gapless submultisets {1,1,2}, {4}, {6,7}, so a(9282) = 3.
MATHEMATICA
primeMS[n_]:=If[n==1, {}, Flatten[Cases[FactorInteger[n], {p_, k_}:>Table[PrimePi[p], {k}]]]];
Table[Length[Split[primeMS[2n], #1>=#2-1&]], {n, 100}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Gus Wiseman, Aug 16 2022
STATUS
approved