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Search: id:A037273
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| A037273 |
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Number of steps to reach a prime under "replace n by concatenation of its prime factors", or -1 if no such number. |
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27
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| 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 13, 2, 4, 0, 1, 0, 5, 4, 4, 0, 1, 0, 15, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 5, 3, 2, 0, 2, 1, 9, 0, 2, 0, 9, 6, 1, 0, 15
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OFFSET
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1,4
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LINKS
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P. De Geest, Home Primes
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.
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EXAMPLE
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Starting with 14 we get 14=2*7, 27=3*3*3, 333=3*3*37, 3337=47*71, 4771=13*367, 13367 is prime; so a(14)=5.
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A037271-A037275, A056938.
Sequence in context: A049218 A154469 A022902 this_sequence A158924 A025426 A053200
Adjacent sequences: A037270 A037271 A037272 this_sequence A037274 A037275 A037276
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KEYWORD
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nonn,nice,hard
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AUTHOR
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N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jeff Burch (gburch(AT)erols.com)
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EXTENSIONS
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Starting with 49, no prime has been reached after 79 steps.
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