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A361876
Dispersion of the odd primes: a rectangular array read by downward antidiagonals.
0
1, 3, 2, 7, 5, 4, 19, 13, 11, 6, 71, 43, 37, 17, 8, 359, 193, 163, 61, 23, 9, 2423, 1181, 971, 293, 89, 29, 10, 21589, 9547, 7669, 1931, 463, 113, 31, 12, 244481, 99523, 78101, 16699, 3301, 619, 131, 41, 14, 3413801, 1292831, 994559, 184463, 30593, 4583, 743
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Every positive integer occurs exactly once. As a dispersion, the array is also an interspersion. Column 1 consists of 1, 2, and the composite positive integers. Row 2 is essentially A119533.
EXAMPLE
Corner:
1 3 7 19 71 359 ...
2 5 13 43 193 1181 ...
4 11 37 163 971 7669 ...
6 17 61 293 1931 16699 ...
8 23 89 463 3301 30593 ...
9 29 113 619 4583 44041 ...
10 31 131 743 5653 55711 ...
12 41 181 1091 8753 90403 ...
...
MATHEMATICA
t = Map[NestWhileList[Prime[1 + #] &, #, # < 20000000 &, 1, Infinity, -1] &,
Complement[Range[Last[#]], #] &[Prime[Range[2, 1000]]]];
Grid[Take[t, 15]] (* Peter J. C. Moses, Apr 06 2023 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000040, A065091, A114537 (dispersion of the primes), A114577 (dispersion of the composite numbers).
Sequence in context: A191448 A191447 A191538 * A080649 A130839 A366565
KEYWORD
nonn,tabl
AUTHOR
Clark Kimberling, Apr 08 2023
STATUS
approved