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A316190 a(n) is the distance between n and the nearest prime power (in the sense of A246655) other than n. 3

%I #12 Jul 25 2019 08:40:57

%S 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,

%T 2,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,2,3,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,3,1,1,3,1,

%U 2,1,2,1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,3

%N a(n) is the distance between n and the nearest prime power (in the sense of A246655) other than n.

%D S. M. Gonek, A formula of Landau and mean values of Zeta(s), Topics in Analytic Number Theory, ed. by S. W. Graham and J. D. Vaaler, 92-97, Univ. Texas Press 1985.

%D S. M. Gonek, An explicit formula of Landau and its applications to the theory of the zeta-function, Contemporary Math. 143 (1993), 395-413.

%H Peter Luschny, <a href="/A316190/b316190.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H E. Landau, <a href="https://eudml.org/doc/158549">Über die Nullstellen der Zetafunktion</a>, Math. Annalen 71, 548-564, (1911).

%e Note that 1369, 1373, 1381 and 1399 are prime powers. This leads to the mapping:

%e 1373 -> 4,

%e 1374 -> 1,

%e 1375 -> 2,

%e 1376 -> 3,

%e 1377 -> 4,

%e 1378 -> 3,

%e 1379 -> 2,

%e 1380 -> 1,

%e 1381 -> 8.

%p A316190_list := proc(N) local a, b, d, m, k, P, R; R := NULL; m := 1;

%p P := select(t -> nops(numtheory:-factorset(t)) = 1 or t = 0, [$0..N]);

%p for k from 1 to nops(P)-1 do

%p a := P[k]; b := P[k+1];

%p if m = a then

%p R := R, min(m - P[k-1] , b - m);

%p m := m + 1;

%p fi;

%p while m < b do

%p R := R, min(m - a , b - m);

%p m := m + 1;

%p od;

%p od; [R] end:

%p A316190_list(100);

%t a[n_] := Module[{k = 1}, While[!PrimePowerQ[n+k] && !PrimePowerQ[n-k], k++]; k]; Array[a, 100] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Jul 25 2019 *)

%Y Cf. A246655, A316191.

%K nonn

%O 1,11

%A _Peter Luschny_, Jun 26 2018

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