OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
Related to Legendre's conjecture that there is always a prime between two consecutive squares.
LINKS
Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from T. D. Noe)
EXAMPLE
a(8)=3 because primes 67, 71 and 79 are between squares 64 and 81
MATHEMATICA
maxN=100; a=Table[0, {maxN}]; maxP=PrimePi[(maxN+1)^2]; For[i=1, i<=maxP, i++, p=Prime[i]; If[Mod[p, 4]==3, j=Floor[Sqrt[p]]; a[[j]]++ ]]; a
p3[{a_, b_}]:=Module[{p=Prime[Range[PrimePi[a]+1, PrimePi[b]]]}, Count[p, _?(Mod[#, 4]==3&)]]; p3/@Partition[Range[100]^2, 2, 1] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 20 2020 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, Nov 20 2002
STATUS
approved