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”).

A371695
The smallest composite number that divides the reverse of the concatenation of its ascending ordered prime factors, with repetition, when written in base n.
3
623, 4, 114, 4, 57, 4, 9, 4, 26, 4, 185, 4, 9, 4, 1718, 4, 343, 4, 9, 4, 70, 4, 25, 4, 9, 4, 195, 4, 226, 4, 9, 4, 25, 4, 123, 4, 9, 4, 654, 4, 862, 4, 9, 4, 42, 4, 49, 4, 9, 4, 3385, 4, 25, 4, 9, 4, 238, 4, 202, 4, 9, 4, 25, 4, 453, 4, 9, 4, 2435, 4, 721, 4, 9, 4, 49, 4, 70, 4, 9, 4, 186
OFFSET
2,1
COMMENTS
See A371641 for an explanation of multiple terms being 4 and 9. The largest number in the first 10000 terms is a(5980) = 1030778.
LINKS
FORMULA
If n+1 is composite, then a(n) <= A020639(n+1)^2. The numbers n where n+1 is composite and a(n) < A020639(n+1)^2 are 288, 298, 340, 360, 376, 516, 526, 550, 582, 736, ... and appear to be identical to A371948. - Chai Wah Wu, Apr 16 2024
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 623 as 623 = 7_10 * 89_10 = 111_2 * 1011001_2 = "1111011001"_2 which when reversed is "1001101111"_2 = 623_10 which is divisible by 623.
a(4) = 114 as 114 = 2_10 * 3_10 * 19_10 = 2_4 * 3_4 * 103_4 = "23103"_4 which when reversed is "30132"_4 = 798_10 which is divisible by 114.
PROG
(Python)
from itertools import count
from sympy.ntheory import digits
from sympy import factorint, isprime
def fromdigits(d, b):
n = 0
for di in d: n *= b; n += di
return n
def a(n):
for k in count(4):
if isprime(k): continue
sf = []
for p, e in list(factorint(k).items())[::-1]:
sf.extend(e*digits(p, n)[1:][::-1])
if fromdigits(sf, n)%k == 0:
return k
print([a(n) for n in range(2, 83)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Apr 16 2024
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Scott R. Shannon, Apr 03 2024
STATUS
approved