OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The list of indices of record terms in A068796;
n is in the sequence if A068796(n) is larger than A068796(m) when n is larger than m. For the known terms, f(a(n)) = n+1. Is that true for all n? In other words, is the monotonic subsequence of A068796 identical to A020725?
a(11) > 10^13. - Giovanni Resta, Jan 08 2014
LINKS
J.-M. De Koninck, J. B. Friedlander, and F. Luca, On strings of consecutive integers with a distinct number of prime factors, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 137 (2009), 1585-1592.
EXAMPLE
The values of f(n) for n=1 to 15 are 2,1,2,2,2,3,3,2,1,3,2,3,2,1,4. Records occur at f(1)=2, f(6)=3 and f(15)=4.
MATHEMATICA
bigomega[n_] := Plus@@Last/@FactorInteger[n]; f[n_] := For[k=1; s={bigomega[n]}, True, k++, If[MemberQ[s, z=bigomega[n+k]], Return[k], AppendTo[s, z]]]; For[n=1; max=0, True, n++, If[f[n]>max, Print[n, " ", max=f[n]]]]
PROG
(PARI) a(n, lim=1e12, startAt=1)={
forstep(i=startAt-1, lim, 10^6-n,
my(v=vectorsmall(min(10^6, lim\1-i), j, bigomega(j+i)));
for(j=n, #v, if(#vecsort(v[j-n+1..j], , 8)==n, return(j+i-n+1)))
)
}; \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 03 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
more,nonn
AUTHOR
G. L. Honaker, Jr., Feb 03 2002
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Shyam Sunder Gupta, Feb 08 2002
Edited by Robert G. Wilson v, Feb 20 2002
Edited by Dean Hickerson, Mar 05 2002
a(10) from Donovan Johnson, Oct 15 2008
STATUS
approved