A250133 Denominator of the harmonic mean of the first n composite numbers.

1, 5, 13, 47, 271, 301, 2287, 491, 1045, 367, 1919, 1999, 22829, 23599, 121691, 1628183, 15054047, 15440147, 15800507, 32276689, 32931889, 570652913, 83022119, 84480719, 1631388461, 1656970061, 1681912121, 11939665247, 12098387447, 12253582487, 285324285601

Offset

1,2

Comments

Also numerator of the sum of the reciprocals of the first n composite numbers (A250133/A296358).

Links

Colin Barker, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..500

Example

a(3) = 13 because the first 3 composite numbers are [4,6,8] and 3 / (1/4+1/6+1/8) = 72/13.
1/4, 5/12, 13/24, 47/72, 271/360, 301/360, 2287/2520, 491/504, 1045/1008, 367/336, 1919/1680, 1999/1680, 22829/18480, ... = A250133/A296358

Prog

(PARI)
harmonicmean(v) = #v / sum(k=1, #v, 1/v[k])
composite(n) = for(k=0, primepi(n), isprime(n++)&&k--); n \\ from A002808
s=vector(100); for(k=1, #s, s[k]=denominator(harmonicmean(vector(k, i, composite(i))))); s

Crossrefs

Cf. A250132 (numerators).

The following fractions are all related to each other: Sum 1/n: A001008/A002805, Sum 1/prime(n): A024451/A002110 and A106830/A034386, Sum 1/nonprime(n): A282511/A282512, Sum 1/composite(n): A250133/A296358.

Sequence in context: A304964 A120790 A162563 * A025545 A146152 A082132

Adjacent sequences: A250130 A250131 A250132 * A250134 A250135 A250136

Keyword

nonn

Author

Colin Barker, Nov 14 2014

Status

approved