login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A331592
a(n) is the smaller of the number of terms in the factorizations of n into (1) powers of distinct primes and (2) powers of squarefree numbers with distinct exponents that are powers of 2.
8
0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1
OFFSET
1,12
COMMENTS
See A329332 for a description of the relationship between the two factorizations. From this relationship we get the formula a(n) = min(A001221(n), A001221(A225546(n))).
The result depends only on the prime signature of n.
k first appears at A191555(k).
FORMULA
a(n) = min(A001221(n), A331591(n)) = min(A001221(n), A001221(A293442(n))).
a(A225546(n)) = a(n).
a(A003961(n)) = a(n).
a(n^2) = a(n).
EXAMPLE
The factorization of 6 into powers of distinct primes is 6 = 2^1 * 3^1 = 2 * 3, which has 2 terms. Its factorization into powers of squarefree numbers with distinct exponents that are powers of 2 is 6 = 6^(2^0) = 6^1, which has 1 term. So a(6) is min(2,1) = 1.
The factorization of 40 into powers of distinct primes is 40 = 2^3 * 5^1 = 8 * 5, which has 2 terms. Its factorization into powers of squarefree numbers with distinct exponents that are powers of 2 is 40 = 10^(2^0) * 2^(2^1) = 10^1 * 2^2 = 10 * 4, which has 2 terms. So a(40) is min(2,2) = 2.
PROG
(PARI) A331592(n) = min(omega(n), A331591(n)); \\ Uses also code from A331591.
CROSSREFS
Sequences with related definitions: A331308, A331591, A331593.
A003961, A225546 are used to express relationship between terms of this sequence.
Differs from = A071625 for the first time at n=216, where a(216) = 2, while A071625(216) = 1.
Sequence in context: A088323 A003652 A071625 * A353745 A309004 A355382
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen and Peter Munn, Jan 21 2020
STATUS
approved