OFFSET
3,1
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Centered Polygonal Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Factor
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 316, because 316 is a centered triangular number with 3 prime factors (counted with multiplicity) {2, 2, 79} and this is the smallest such number.
MATHEMATICA
c[n_, k_] := n*k*(k + 1)/2 + 1; a[n_] := Module[{k = 1, ck}, While[PrimeOmega[ck = c[n, k]] != n, k++]; ck]; Array[a, 7, 3] (* Amiram Eldar, Dec 09 2022 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = if(n<3, return()); for(k=1, oo, my(t=((n*k*(k+1))/2+1)); if(bigomega(t) == n, return(t))); \\ Daniel Suteu, Dec 09 2022
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Ilya Gutkovskiy, Dec 06 2022
EXTENSIONS
a(10)-a(15) from Daniel Suteu, Dec 09 2022
STATUS
approved