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A068629
a(1) = 1. a(n) = n*a(n-1) if gcd(n,a(n-1)) = 1, a(n-1)/n if n divides a(n-1), otherwise a(n) = a(n-1).
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1, 2, 6, 6, 30, 5, 35, 280, 2520, 252, 2772, 231, 3003, 3003, 3003, 48048, 816816, 816816, 15519504, 15519504, 739024, 33592, 772616, 772616, 19315400, 742900, 20058300, 20058300, 581690700, 19389690, 601080390, 601080390
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The sequence can also be obtained by taking a(1) = 1 and then multiplying the previous term by n if n is coprime to the previous term a(n-1), dividing the previous term by n if n divides the previous term a(n-1), taking a(n) = a(n-1) if n is unrelated to a(n-1). - Amarnath Murthy, Oct 30 2002 (corrected by Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Dec 13 2006)
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MATHEMATICA
a = {1}; Do[AppendTo[a, If[GCD[a[[-1]], n] == 1, a[[-1]]*n, If[Divisible[a[[-1]], n], a[[-1]]/n, a[[-1]]]]], {n, 2, 32}]; a (* Ivan Neretin, May 21 2015 *)
PROG
(PARI) print1(k=1); for(n=2, 99, if(gcd(k, n)==1, k*=n, if(k%n==0, k/=n)); print1(", "k)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 21 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Feb 26 2002
EXTENSIONS
a(26)-a(32) corrected by Ivan Neretin, May 21 2015
STATUS
approved