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A002201 Superior highly composite numbers: positive integers n for which there is an e > 0 such that d(n)/n^e >= d(k)/k^e for all k > 1, where the function d(n) counts the divisors of n (A000005).
(Formerly M1591 N0620)
43
2, 6, 12, 60, 120, 360, 2520, 5040, 55440, 720720, 1441440, 4324320, 21621600, 367567200, 6983776800, 13967553600, 321253732800, 2248776129600, 65214507758400, 195643523275200, 6064949221531200 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
For fixed e > 0, d(n)/n^e is bounded and reaches its maximum at one or more points.
This is an infinite subset of A002182.
The first 15 numbers in this sequence agree with those in A004490 (colossally abundant numbers). - David Terr, Sep 29 2004
REFERENCES
J. L. Nicolas, On highly composite numbers, pp. 215-244 in Ramanujan Revisited, Editors G. E. Andrews et al., Academic Press 1988.
S. Ramanujan, Highly composite numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc., 14 (1915), 347-407. Reprinted in Collected Papers, Ed. G. H. Hardy et al., Cambridge 1927; Chelsea, NY, 1962, pp. 78-129. See esp. pp. 87, 115.
S. Ramanujan, Highly composite numbers, Annotated and with a foreword by J.-L. Nicolas and G. Robin, Ramanujan J., 1 (1997), 119-153.
S. Ramanujan, Highly Composite Numbers: Section IV, in 1) Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, pp. 111-8, Ed. G. H. Hardy et al., AMS Chelsea 2000. 2) Ramanujan's Papers, pp. 143-150, Ed. B. J. Venkatachala et al., Prism Books Bangalore 2000.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Iain Fox, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..400 (first 150 terms from T. D. Noe)
S. Ramanujan, Highly composite numbers, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2, XIV, 1915, 347 - 409.
S. Ratering, An interesting subset of the highly composite numbers, Math. Mag., 64 (1991), 343-346.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Superior Highly Composite Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Colossally Abundant Number
EXAMPLE
For n=2, 6 and 12 we may take e in the intervals (log(2)/log(3), 1], (log(3/2)/log(2), log(2)/log(3)] and (log(2)/log(5), log(3/2)/log(2)], respectively.
Can the intervals in the previous line can be extended to include the left endpoints? - Ant King, May 02 2005
MATHEMATICA
Rest@ Union@ Array[Product[p^Floor[1/(p^(1/#) - 1)], {p, Prime@ Range@ PrimePi[2^#]}] &[Log@ #] &, 160] (* Michael De Vlieger, Jul 09 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) lista(nn)=my(p=primes(primepi(2^log(nn)))); setminus(Set(vector(nn, i, prod(n=1, primepi(2^log(i)), p[n]^floor(1/(p[n]^(1/log(i))-1))))), [1]) \\ Iain Fox, Aug 23 2020
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A322381 A265125 A328549 * A263572 A004490 A224078
KEYWORD
nonn,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Better definition from T. D. Noe, Nov 05 2002
STATUS
approved

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