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A073426
Number of primes between n-th prime and n-th composite or number of primes that are >=Min[prime(n),c(n)] and are < Max[prime(n),c(n)].
1
2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 15, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 25, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29, 30, 31, 31, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 35, 36, 37, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 47, 48, 49, 49, 49
OFFSET
1,1
FORMULA
a(n)=A000720[A000040(n)]-A000720[A002808(n)], for n>=5; a(n)=A000720[A002808(n)]-n+1 for n=1, 2, 3, 4.
EXAMPLE
n=4: in range {p(4)=11 and c(4)=10} 1 prime was found, a(4)=1; n=25: in range {p(25)=97 and c(25)=38} 13 primes, {41,43,..,97} were found, so a(25)=13.
MATHEMATICA
c[x_] := FixedPoint[x+PrimePi[ # ]+1&, x] Table[PrimePi[c[w]]-w+1, {w, 1, 4}] Table[w-PrimePi[c[w]], {w, 5, 128}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Labos Elemer, Jul 31 2002
STATUS
approved