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A064921
Iterate A064920 until a prime is reached.
4
2, 3, 3, 5, 3, 7, 5, 5, 3, 11, 3, 13, 5, 7, 5, 17, 5, 19, 5, 5, 3, 23, 3, 5, 5, 11, 3, 29, 3, 31, 17, 13, 5, 11, 5, 37, 5, 7, 3, 41, 3, 43, 5, 13, 3, 47, 5, 13, 5, 19, 5, 53, 5, 7, 5, 5, 3, 59, 5, 61, 17, 7, 13, 17, 5, 67, 5, 5, 5, 71, 5, 73, 5, 19, 3, 17, 5, 79, 5, 29, 3, 83, 5, 5, 5, 31, 5
OFFSET
2,1
COMMENTS
Well defined since A064920(n) < n for nonprimes.
a(p) = p for all primes p.
LINKS
EXAMPLE
a(18) = 5 as A064920(18) = 8 and A064920(8) = 5.
PROG
(PARI) gpf(n)= { local(f); f=factor(n)~; return(f[1, length(f)]) } { for (n=2, 1000, m=n; while (!isprime(m), g=gpf(m); m=m / g + g - 1); write("b064921.txt", n, " ", m) ) } \\ Harry J. Smith, Sep 29 2009
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 14 2001
STATUS
approved