This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A020754 #54 Apr 17 2024 04:44:28 %S A020754 1,3,7,47,241,843,22019,217069,1092746,8870023,221167421,47255689914, %T A020754 82462576219,1043460553363,79180770078547,3215226335143217, %U A020754 23742453640900971,125781000834058567 %N A020754 Increasing gaps between squarefree numbers (lower end). %C A020754 We only consider gaps that set new records. The first gap of size 12 occurs (at 221167421) before the first gap of size 11 (at 262315466) and so for n>10, the n-th term in this sequence does not correspond to the first gap of length n. See A020753. - _Nathan McNew_, Dec 02 2020 %C A020754 The length of these runs are significantly shorter than would be predicted by a naive random model (for such a model see, e.g., Gordon, Schilling, & Waterman). For example, with n = a(18) and p = 6/Pi^2 the expected largest run is about 77.9 with variance 6.7, while A020753(18) = 18 which is 23 standard deviations smaller. - _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Oct 29 2021 %H A020754 Tsz Ho Chan, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09990">New small gaps between squarefree numbers</a>, arXiv:2110.09990 [math.NT], 2021. [Note: according to Pandey, Chan has discovered an error in this paper.] %H A020754 Louis Gordon, Mark F. Schilling, and Michael S. Waterman, <a href="http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/static/misc/Gordon_Schilling_Waterman_1986.pdf">An extreme value theory for long head runs</a>, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Vol. 72 (1986), pp. 279-287. %H A020754 Angel Kumchev, Wade McCormick, Nathan McNew, Ariana Park, Russell Scherr, and Simon Ziehr, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09975">Explicit bounds for large gaps between squarefree and cubefree integers</a>, arXiv preprint (2022). arXiv:2211.09975 [math.NT] %H A020754 Michael J. Mossinghoff, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, and Tim Trudgian, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04972">The distribution of k-free numbers</a>, arXiv:1912.04972 [math.NT], 2019. See Table 3, p. 14. %H A020754 Mayank Pandey, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13981">Squarefree numbers in short intervals</a>, arXiv preprint (2024). arXiv:2401.13981 [math.NT] %F A020754 a(n) = A020755(n) - A020753(n); also a(n) = A020754(n+[n>10]) - 1 at least for n < 19. - _M. F. Hasler_, Dec 28 2015 %e A020754 The first gap in A005117 occurs between 1 and 2 and has length 1. The next largest gap occurs between 3 and 5 and has length 2. The next largest gap is between 7 and 10 and has length 3. Etc. %t A020754 Module[{nn=11*10^5,sf,df},sf=Select[Range[nn],SquareFreeQ];df=Differences[sf];DeleteDuplicates[ Thread[{Most[sf],df}],GreaterEqual[#1[[2]],#2[[2]]]&]][[;;,1]] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, May 24 2023 *) %o A020754 (PARI) A020754(n)=for(k=L=1, 9e9, issquarefree(k)||next; k-L>=n&&return(L); L=k) \\ For illustrative purpose only, not useful for n>10. - _M. F. Hasler_, Dec 28 2015 %o A020754 (PARI) r=0; L=1; forsquarefree(n=2,10^8,t=n[1]-L; if(t>r,r=t; print1(L", ")); L=n[1]) \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Oct 22 2021 %Y A020754 Cf. A005117, A020753, A020755, A045882, A051681. %K A020754 nonn,hard,nice %O A020754 1,2 %A A020754 _David W. Wilson_ %E A020754 Thanks to _Christian G. Bower_ for additional comments. %E A020754 a(16)-a(18) from A045882 by _Jens Kruse Andersen_, May 01 2015