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A257559
The slowest increasing sequence of semiprimes with strictly increasing difference of successive terms.
2
4, 6, 9, 14, 21, 33, 46, 62, 82, 106, 133, 161, 194, 235, 278, 323, 371, 422, 478, 535, 597, 662, 731, 802, 878, 955, 1037, 1121, 1207, 1294, 1382, 1473, 1565, 1658, 1754, 1851, 1954, 2059, 2165, 2279, 2395, 2513, 2638, 2771, 2906, 3043
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Semiprime analog of A070865.
Heuristically a(n) is around n^2 log n/log log n. - Charles R Greathouse IV, May 01 2015
FORMULA
a(n) >> n^2. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 30 2015
PROG
(PARI) issemi(n)=bigomega(n)==2
t=0; print1(last=4); while(1, n=last+t; while(!issemi(n++), ); print1(", "n); t=n-last; last=n) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 30 2015
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A339114 A175709 A073679 * A118689 A364489 A118692
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Zak Seidov, Apr 30 2015
STATUS
approved