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A014612 Numbers that are the product of exactly three (not necessarily distinct) primes.

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8, 12, 18, 20, 27, 28, 30, 42, 44, 45, 50, 52, 63, 66, 68, 70, 75, 76, 78, 92, 98, 99, 102, 105, 110, 114, 116, 117, 124, 125, 130, 138, 147, 148, 153, 154, 164, 165, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 182, 186, 188, 190, 195, 207, 212, 222, 230, 231, 236, 238, 242, 244
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Sometimes called "triprimes" or "3-almost primes".
See also A001358 for product of two primes (sometimes called semiprimes).
If you graph a(n)/n for n up to 10000 (and probably quite a bit higher), it appears to be converging to something near 3.9. In fact the limit is infinite. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Sep 20 2006
Meng shows that for any sufficiently large odd integer n, the equation n = a + b + c has solutions where each of a, b, c is 3-almost prime. The number of such solutions is (log log n)^6/(16 (log n)^3)*n^2*s(n)*(1 + O(1/log log n)), where s(n) = Sum_{q >= 1} Sum_{a = 1..q, (a, q) = 1} exp(i*2*Pi*n*a/q)*mu(n)/phi(n)^3 > 1/2. - Jonathan Vos Post, Sep 16 2005, corrected & rewritten by M. F. Hasler, Apr 24 2019
Also, a(n) are the numbers such that exactly half of their divisors are composite. For the numbers in which exactly half of the divisors are prime, see A167171. - Ivan Neretin, Jan 12 2016

Examples

			From _Gus Wiseman_, Nov 04 2020: (Start)
Also Heinz numbers of integer partitions into three parts, counted by A001399(n-3) = A069905(n) with ordered version A000217, where the Heinz number of an integer partition (y_1,...,y_k) is prime(y_1)*...*prime(y_k). The sequence of terms together with their prime indices begins:
      8: {1,1,1}     70: {1,3,4}     130: {1,3,6}
     12: {1,1,2}     75: {2,3,3}     138: {1,2,9}
     18: {1,2,2}     76: {1,1,8}     147: {2,4,4}
     20: {1,1,3}     78: {1,2,6}     148: {1,1,12}
     27: {2,2,2}     92: {1,1,9}     153: {2,2,7}
     28: {1,1,4}     98: {1,4,4}     154: {1,4,5}
     30: {1,2,3}     99: {2,2,5}     164: {1,1,13}
     42: {1,2,4}    102: {1,2,7}     165: {2,3,5}
     44: {1,1,5}    105: {2,3,4}     170: {1,3,7}
     45: {2,2,3}    110: {1,3,5}     171: {2,2,8}
     50: {1,3,3}    114: {1,2,8}     172: {1,1,14}
     52: {1,1,6}    116: {1,1,10}    174: {1,2,10}
     63: {2,2,4}    117: {2,2,6}     175: {3,3,4}
     66: {1,2,5}    124: {1,1,11}    182: {1,4,6}
     68: {1,1,7}    125: {3,3,3}     186: {1,2,11}
(End)
		

References

  • Edmund Landau, Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen, Vol. 1, Teubner, Leipzig; third edition : Chelsea, New York (1974). See p. 211.

Crossrefs

Cf. A000040, A001358 (biprimes), A014613 (quadruprimes), A033942, A086062, A098238, A123072, A123073, A101605 (characteristic function).
Cf. A109251 (number of 3-almost primes <= 10^n).
Subsequence of A145784. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 19 2008
Cf. A007304 is the squarefree case.
Sequences listing r-almost primes, that is, the n such that A001222(n) = r: A000040 (r = 1), A001358 (r = 2), this sequence (r = 3), A014613 (r = 4), A014614 (r = 5), A046306 (r = 6), A046308 (r = 7), A046310 (r = 8), A046312 (r = 9), A046314 (r = 10), A069272 (r = 11), A069273 (r = 12), A069274 (r = 13), A069275 (r = 14), A069276 (r = 15), A069277 (r = 16), A069278 (r = 17), A069279 (r = 18), A069280 (r = 19), A069281 (r = 20). - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011
Cf. A253721 (final digits).
A014311 is a different ranking of ordered triples, with strict case A337453.
A046316 is the restriction to odds, with strict case A307534.
A075818 is the restriction to evens, with strict case A075819.
A285508 is the nonsquarefree case.
A001399(n-3) = A069905(n) = A211540(n+2) counts 3-part partitions.

Programs

  • Haskell
    a014612 n = a014612_list !! (n-1)
    a014612_list = filter ((== 3) . a001222) [1..] -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 02 2012
    
  • Maple
    with(numtheory); A014612:=n->`if`(bigomega(n)=3, n, NULL); seq(A014612(n), n=1..250) # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Feb 05 2014
  • Mathematica
    threeAlmostPrimeQ[n_] := Plus @@ Last /@ FactorInteger@n == 3; Select[ Range@244, threeAlmostPrimeQ[ # ] &] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 04 2006 *)
    NextkAlmostPrime[n_, k_: 2, m_: 1] := Block[{c = 0, sgn = Sign[m]}, kap = n + sgn; While[c < Abs[m], While[ PrimeOmega[kap] != k, If[sgn < 0, kap--, kap++]]; If[ sgn < 0, kap--, kap++]; c++]; kap + If[sgn < 0, 1, -1]]; NestList[NextkAlmostPrime[#, 3] &, 2^3, 56] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 27 2013 *)
    Select[Range[244], PrimeOmega[#] == 3 &] (* Jayanta Basu, Jul 01 2013 *)
  • PARI
    isA014612(n)=bigomega(n)==3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 07 2011
    
  • PARI
    list(lim)=my(v=List(),t);forprime(p=2,lim\4, forprime(q=2,min(lim\(2*p),p), t=p*q; forprime(r=2,min(lim\t,q),listput(v,t*r)))); vecsort(Vec(v)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 04 2013
    
  • Python
    from sympy import factorint
    def ok(n): f = factorint(n); return sum(f[p] for p in f) == 3
    print(list(filter(ok, range(245)))) # Michael S. Branicky, Aug 12 2021
    
  • Python
    from math import isqrt
    from sympy import primepi, primerange, integer_nthroot
    def A014612(n):
        def f(x): return int(n+x-sum(primepi(x//(k*m))-b for a,k in enumerate(primerange(integer_nthroot(x,3)[0]+1)) for b,m in enumerate(primerange(k,isqrt(x//k)+1),a)))
        m, k = n, f(n)
        while m != k:
            m, k = k, f(k)
        return m # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 17 2024
  • Scala
    def primeFactors(number: Int, list: List[Int] = List())
                                                          : List[Int] = {
      for (n <- 2 to number if (number % n == 0)) {
        return primeFactors(number / n, list :+ n)
      }
      list
    }
    (1 to 250).filter(primeFactors().size == 3) // _Alonso del Arte, Nov 04 2020, based on algorithm by Victor Farcic (vfarcic)
    

Formula

Product p_i^e_i with Sum e_i = 3.
a(n) ~ 2n log n / (log log n)^2 as n -> infinity [Landau, p. 211].
Tau(a(n)) = 2 * (omega(a(n)) + 1) = 2*A083399(a(n)), where tau = A000005 and omega = A001221. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jun 28 2013
a(n) = A078840(3,n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019

Extensions

More terms from Patrick De Geest, Jun 15 1998