A324385 Distance from the n-th highly composite number, A002182(n), from the largest prime <= A002182(n).

0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 11, 17, 1, 1, 1, 13, 11, 11, 19, 17, 13, 1, 23, 1, 1, 13, 17, 17, 13, 17, 1, 17, 1, 1, 23, 17, 17, 17, 1, 19, 83, 37, 23, 17, 23, 1, 43, 19, 1, 19, 43, 19, 31, 23, 19, 31, 19, 19, 1, 1, 1, 1, 47, 1, 31, 47, 23, 53, 23, 83, 37, 31, 1, 31, 1, 23, 61, 1, 41, 47, 61, 41, 29, 41, 29, 43, 73, 29, 47, 31, 31

Offset

2,6

Comments

Like in A141345 it appears (or is conjectured) that no composite numbers ever occur here. Taken together, this leads to McEachen's conjecture given in A117825. Here in range 2..10000 term 1 occurs for 313 times.

The arithmetic mean of a(n)/log(A002182(n)) for the terms 3..10000 is 1.513, i.e., a rough approximation is given by a(n) ~ log(A002182(n)^(3/2)). - A.H.M. Smeets, Dec 02 2020

Links

Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..10000

Formula

a(n) = A002182(n) - A007917(A002182(n)).

Example

A002182(2) = 2, the largest prime <= 2 is 2 itself, thus a(2) = 2-2 = 0.
A002182(7) = 36, the largest prime <= 36 is 31, thus a(7) = 36-31 = 5.

Mathematica

With[{s = Array[DivisorSigma[0, #] &, 10^6]}, {0}~Join~Map[# - NextPrime[#, -1] &@ FirstPosition[s, #][[1]] &, Drop[Union@ FoldList[Max, s], 2]]] (* or *)
{0}~Join~Map[# - NextPrime[#, -1] &, Import["https://oeis.org/A002182/b002182.txt", "Data"][[3 ;; 97, -1]] ] (* Michael De Vlieger, Dec 11 2020 *)

Prog

(PARI) A324385(n) = (A002182(n)-precprime(A002182(n)));

Crossrefs

Cf. A002182, A007917, A060270, A117825, A141345.

Sequence in context: A328098 A200401 A214228 * A111720 A029646 A152721

Adjacent sequences: A324382 A324383 A324384 * A324386 A324387 A324388

Keyword

nonn

Author

Antti Karttunen, Feb 26 2019

Status

approved