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A055230
Greatest common divisor of largest square dividing n! and squarefree part of n!.
7
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 6, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 1, 21, 42, 42, 7, 7, 14, 42, 6, 6, 5, 5, 10, 330, 165, 231, 231, 231, 462, 2002, 5005, 5005, 4290, 4290, 390, 78, 39, 39, 13, 13, 26, 1326, 102, 102, 17, 935, 13090, 746130, 373065, 373065, 24871, 24871
OFFSET
1,4
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = GCD(A008833(n!), A007913(n!)) = GCD(A055071(n), A055204(n)).
EXAMPLE
a(5) = 2 because 5! = 120; largest square divisor is 4, squarefree part is 30; GCD(4, 30) = 2.
a(7) = 1 because 7! = 5040; the largest square divisor is 144 and the squarefree part is 35 and these are coprime.
MATHEMATICA
Table[GCD[Times @@ Flatten@ Map[Table[#1, 2 Floor[#2/2]] & @@ # &, #], Times @@ Flatten@ Map[Table[#1, Floor[Mod[#2, 2]]] & @@ # &, #]] &@ FactorInteger[n!], {n, 61}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Jul 26 2016 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = my(fn=n!, cn=core(fn)); gcd(cn, fn/cn); \\ Michel Marcus, Dec 10 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Labos Elemer, Jun 21 2000
STATUS
approved