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A062575
a(n) = maximum over m of the size of the largest subset of pairwise relatively prime numbers in {m+1, m+2, ..., m+n}.
1
1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 20, 20, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 23
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
P. Erdős and J. L. Selfridge, Complete prime subsets of consecutive integers, Proceedings of the Manitoba Conference on Numerical Mathematics, Winnipeg (1971), p. 13.
EXAMPLE
a(5) = 4, since {1,2,3,4,5} contains the subset {1,2,3,5} which is pairwise relatively prime and it is impossible for 5 consecutive positive integers to be pairwise relatively prime.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A062571.
Sequence in context: A189705 A303601 A031247 * A073188 A269225 A217713
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Shallit, Jul 03 2001
EXTENSIONS
Name corrected by Charles R Greathouse IV, Sep 24 2015
STATUS
approved