A243625 a(n) is the smallest positive integer not already in the sequence for which a(n)+a(n-1) is a semiprime, with a(1)=1.

1, 3, 6, 4, 2, 7, 8, 13, 9, 5, 10, 11, 14, 12, 21, 17, 16, 18, 15, 19, 20, 26, 23, 28, 27, 22, 24, 25, 30, 32, 33, 29, 36, 38, 31, 34, 35, 39, 43, 42, 40, 37, 45, 41, 44, 47, 46, 48, 58, 53, 62, 49, 57, 54, 52, 59, 56, 50, 61, 60, 51, 55, 63, 66, 67, 74, 68

Offset

1,2

Comments

It is probable that every positive integer occurs, and that this is a permutation of natural numbers.

a(n) = n for n = 1, 4, 9, 18, 23, 48, 54, 60, 63, 77, 91, 92, .... (375 cases for first 3000 terms). - Zak Seidov, Feb 22 2017

Links

Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Example

a(3)=6 because 1 and 3 have already been used in the sequence and 3+2=5, 3+4=7 and 3+5=8 are not semiprime while 3+6=9 is semiprime.

Maple

N:= 1000; # to get all terms up to a(N)
issp:= proc(n) local F; F:= ifactors(n)[2]; add(f[2], f=F)=2 end proc:
S:= {1}; m:= 1; R:= {}; a[1]:= 1;
for n from 2 to N do
  found:= false;
  for k in R do
    if issp(a[n-1]+k) then
      a[n]:= k;
      S:= S union {k};
      R:= R minus {k};
      found:= true;
      break
    fi;
  od;
  if not found then
    for k from m+1 do
      if issp(a[n-1]+k) then
        a[n]:= k;
        S:= S union {k};
        R:= R union {$(m+1)..(k-1)};
        m:= k;
        break
      fi
    od
  fi
od:
seq(a(n), n=1..N); # Robert Israel, Jun 08 2014

Mathematica

f[s_List] := Block[{k = 1, a = s[[ -1]]}, While[ MemberQ[s, k] || ! Plus@@Last/@FactorInteger[a+k] == 2, k++ ]; Append[s, k]]; Nest[f, {1}, 71]

Crossrefs

Cf. A055265.

Sequence in context: A021737 A359572 A011307 * A321872 A221363 A245943

Adjacent sequences: A243622 A243623 A243624 * A243626 A243627 A243628

Keyword

nonn

Author

Michel Lagneau, Jun 08 2014

Status

approved