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A319500
a(n) is the least m for which A006987(n) = binomial(m,k) for some k, 2 <= k <= m/2.
2
4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 7, 9, 10, 11, 8, 12, 8, 13, 9, 14, 15, 10, 9, 17, 18, 11, 19, 20, 10, 12, 22, 10, 23, 24, 13, 25, 26, 11, 27, 14, 28, 29, 30, 15, 11, 31, 12, 32, 33, 16, 34, 35, 36, 37, 17, 38, 13, 39, 40, 12, 18, 41, 42, 43, 12, 44, 19, 45, 14, 46, 47, 48, 20, 49, 50, 51, 13, 52, 21, 15, 53
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
First differs from A022911 at n=18.
LINKS
FORMULA
A006987(n) = binomial(a(n),A318955(n)).
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 6 because A006987(3) = 15 = binomial(6,2).
MAPLE
N:= 10000: # for binomial(n, k) values <= N
S:= {}:
for n from 2 while n*(n-1)/2 <= N do
for k from 2 to n/2 do
v:= binomial(n, k);
if v > N then break fi;
if not member(v, S) then
S:= S union {v};
M[v]:= n;
fi
od od:
A006987:= sort(convert(S, list)):
seq(M[A006987[i]], i=1..nops(A006987));
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Robert Israel, Sep 20 2018
STATUS
approved