OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Not a subsequence of A025487: a(18) = 65520 = 2^4 * 3^2 * 5 * 7 * 13, a(46) = 136936800 = 2^5 * 3^2 * 5^2 * 7 * 11 * 13 * 19, and a(50) = 273873600 = 2^6 * 3^2 * 5^2 * 7 * 11 * 13 * 19. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 12 2018
LINKS
Charles R Greathouse IV, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..64
C. Hooley, On a new technique and its applications to the theory of numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. 3 38:1 (1979), pp. 115-151.
PROG
(PARI) Delta(n)=my(d=divisors(n), r, t); for(i=1, #d\2, t=setsearch(d, d[i]*exp(1)\1, 1); t=if(t, t-i, setsearch(d, d[i]*exp(1)\1)+1-i); if(t>r, r=t)); r
r=0; for(n=1, 1e9, t=Delta(n); if(t>r, r=t; print1(n", ")))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 21 2013
STATUS
approved