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A001222 Number of prime divisors of n counted with multiplicity (also called big omega of n, bigomega(n) or Omega(n)).

0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 5, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 5, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 5, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1, 3, 3, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 1, 3, 2

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

Maximal number of terms in any factorization of n.
Number of prime powers (not including 1) that divide n.
Sum of exponents in prime-power factorization of n. - Daniel Forgues, Mar 29 2009
Sum_{d|n} 2^(-A001221(d) - a(n/d)) = Sum_{d|n} 2^(-a(d) - A001221(n/d)) = 1 (see Dressler and van de Lune link). - Michel Marcus, Dec 18 2012
Row sums in A067255. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 11 2013
Conjecture: Let f(n) = (x+y)^a(n), and g(n) = x^a(n), and h(n) = (x+y)^A046660(n) * y^A001221(n) with x, y complex numbers and 0^0 = 1. Then f(n) = Sum_{d|n} g(d)*h(n/d). This is proved for x = 1-y (see Dressler and van de Lune link). - Werner Schulte, Feb 10 2018
Let r, s be some fixed integers. Then we have:
  (1) The sequence b(n) = Dirichlet convolution of r^bigomega(n) and s^bigomega(n) is multiplicative with b(p^e) = (r^(e+1)-s^(e+1))/(r-s) for prime p and e >= 0. The case r = s leads to b(p^e) = (e+1)*r^e.
  (2) The sequence c(n) = Dirichlet convolution of r^bigomega(n) and mu(n)*s^bigomega(n) is multiplicative with c(p^e) = (r-s)*r^(e-1) and c(1) = 1 for prime p and e > 0 where mu(n) = A008683(n). - Werner Schulte, Feb 20 2019
a(n) is also the length of the composition series for every solvable group of order n. - Miles Englezou, Apr 25 2024

			16=2^4, so a(16)=4; 18=2*3^2, so a(18)=3.

L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 119, #12, omega(n).
G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work, Cambridge, University Press, 1940, pp. 48-57.
M. Kac, Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis and Number Theory, Carus Monograph 12, Math. Assoc. Amer., 1959, see p. 64.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, page 92.

Daniel Forgues, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100000 (first 10000 terms from N. J. A. Sloane)
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy], p. 844.
Benoit Cloitre, A tauberian approach to RH, arXiv:1107.0812 [math.NT], 2011.
Robert E. Dressler and Jan van de Lune, Some remarks concerning the number theoretic functions omega and Omega, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1973), 403-406.
G. H. Hardy and S. Ramanujan, The normal number of prime factors of a number, Quart. J. Math. 48 (1917), 76-92. Also Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, AMS Chelsea Publ., Providence, RI (2000): 262-275.
Douglas E. Iannucci and Urban Larsson, Game values of arithmetic functions, arXiv:2101.07608 [math.NT], 2021. Section 1.1.1. pp. 4-5.
Amarnath Murthy and Charles Ashbacher, Generalized Partitions and Some New Ideas on Number Theory and Smarandache Sequences, Hexis, Phoenix; USA 2005. See Section 1.4, 1.10.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Factor
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Roundness
Wolfram Research, First 50 numbers factored
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences computed from exponents in factorization of n
Index entries for sequences computed from indices in prime factorization

Cf. A001221 (omega, primes counted without multiplicity), A008836 (Liouville's lambda, equal to (-1)^a(n)), A046660, A144494, A074946, A134334.
Bisections give A091304 and A073093. A086436 is essentially the same sequence. Cf. A022559 (partial sums), A066829 (parity), A092248 (parity of omega).
Sequences listing n such that a(n) = r: A000040 (r = 1), A001358 (r = 2), A014612 (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. A079149 (primes adj. to integers with at most 2 prime factors, a(n)<=2).
Cf. A000120, A020639, A091202, A091222, A156552, A267116, A268387.
Cf. A027748 (without repetition).
Cf. A000010.

Concatenation([0],List([2..150],n->Length(Factors(n)))); # Muniru A Asiru, Feb 21 2019

import Math.NumberTheory.Primes.Factorisation (factorise)
a001222 = sum . snd . unzip . factorise
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 28 2015

using Nemo
function NumberOfPrimeFactors(n; distinct=true)
    distinct && return length(factor(ZZ(n)))
    sum(e for (p, e) in factor(ZZ(n)); init=0)
end
println([NumberOfPrimeFactors(n, distinct=false) for n in 1:60])  # Peter Luschny, Jan 02 2024

[n eq 1 select 0 else &+[p[2]: p in Factorization(n)]: n in [1..120]]; // Bruno Berselli, Nov 27 2013

with(numtheory): seq(bigomega(n), n=1..111);

Array[ Plus @@ Last /@ FactorInteger[ # ] &, 105]
PrimeOmega[Range[120]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 25 2011 *)

PARI
```
vector(100,n,bigomega(n))
```

from sympy import primeomega
def a(n): return primeomega(n)
print([a(n) for n in range(1, 112)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Apr 30 2022

[sloane.A001222(n) for n in (1..120)] # Giuseppe Coppoletta, Jan 19 2015

[gp.bigomega(n) for n in range(1,131)] # G. C. Greubel, Jul 13 2024

(define (A001222 n) (let loop ((n n) (z 0)) (if (= 1 n) z (loop (/ n (A020639 n)) (+ 1 z)))))
;; Requires also A020639 for which an equally naive implementation can be found under that entry. - Antti Karttunen, Apr 12 2017

n = Product_(p_j^k_j) -> a(n) = Sum_(k_j).
Dirichlet g.f.: ppzeta(s)*zeta(s). Here ppzeta(s) = Sum_{p prime} Sum_{k>=1} 1/(p^k)^s. Note that ppzeta(s) = Sum_{p prime} 1/(p^s-1) and ppzeta(s) = Sum_{k>=1} primezeta(k*s). - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Sep 11 2005
Totally additive with a(p) = 1.
a(n) = if n=1 then 0 else a(n/A020639(n)) + 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 25 2008
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..A001221(n)} A124010(n,k). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 27 2011
a(n) = A022559(n) - A022559(n-1).
G.f.: Sum_{p prime, k>=1} x^(p^k)/(1 - x^(p^k)). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Jan 25 2017
a(n) = A091222(A091202(n)) = A000120(A156552(n)). - Antti Karttunen, circa 2004 and Mar 06 2017
a(n) >= A267116(n) >= A268387(n). - Antti Karttunen, Apr 12 2017
Sum_{k=1..n} 2^(-A001221(gcd(n,k)) - a(n/gcd(n,k)))/phi(n/gcd(n,k)) = Sum_{k=1..n} 2^(-a(gcd(n,k)) - A001221(n/gcd(n,k)))/phi(n/gcd(n,k)) = 1, where phi = A000010. - Richard L. Ollerton, May 13 2021
a(n) = a(A046523(n)) = A007814(A108951(n)) = A061395(A122111(n)) = A056239(A181819(n)) = A048675(A293442(n)). - Antti Karttunen, Apr 30 2022

More terms from David W. Wilson

A001358 Semiprimes (or biprimes): products of two primes.

Original entry on oeis.org

4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 46, 49, 51, 55, 57, 58, 62, 65, 69, 74, 77, 82, 85, 86, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 106, 111, 115, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 129, 133, 134, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 155, 158, 159, 161, 166, 169, 177, 178, 183, 185, 187

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane, R. K. Guy

Numbers of the form p*q where p and q are primes, not necessarily distinct.
These numbers are sometimes called semiprimes or 2-almost primes.
Numbers n such that Omega(n) = 2 where Omega(n) = A001222(n) is the sum of the exponents in the prime decomposition of n.
Complement of A100959; A064911(a(n)) = 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 22 2004
The graph of this sequence appears to be a straight line with slope 4. However, the asymptotic formula shows that the linearity is an illusion and in fact a(n)/n ~ log(n)/log(log(n)) goes to infinity. See also the graph of A066265 = number of semiprimes < 10^n.
For numbers between 33 and 15495, semiprimes are more plentiful than any other k-almost prime. See A125149.
Numbers that are divisible by exactly 2 prime powers (not including 1). - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011
The (disjoint) union of A006881 and A001248. - Jason Kimberley, Nov 11 2015
An equivalent definition of this sequence is a'(n) = smallest composite number which is not divided by any smaller composite number a'(1),...,a'(n-1). - Meir-Simchah Panzer, Jun 22 2016
The above characterization can be simplified to "Composite numbers not divisible by a smaller term." This shows that this is the equivalent of primes computed via Eratosthenes's sieve, but starting with the set of composite numbers (i.e., complement of 1 union primes) instead of all positive integers > 1. It's easy to see that iterating the method (using Eratosthenes's sieve each time on the remaining numbers, complement of the previously computed set) yields numbers with bigomega = k for k = 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., i.e., {1}, A000040, this, A014612, etc. - M. F. Hasler, Apr 24 2019
For all n except n = 2, a(n) is a deficient number. - Amrit Awasthi, Sep 10 2024
It is reasonable to assume that the "comforting numbers" which John T. Williams found in Chapter 3 of Milne's book "The House at Pooh Corner" are these semiprimes. Winnie-the-Pooh wonders whether he has 14 or 15 honey pots and concludes: "It's sort of comforting." To arrange a semiprime number of honey pots in a rectangular way, let's say on a shelf, with the larger divisor parallel to the wall, there is only one solution and this is for a simple mind like Winnie-the-Pooh comforting. - Ruediger Jehn, Dec 12 2024

			From _Gus Wiseman_, May 27 2021: (Start)
The sequence of terms together with their prime factors begins:
   4 = 2*2     46 = 2*23     91 = 7*13    141 = 3*47
   6 = 2*3     49 = 7*7      93 = 3*31    142 = 2*71
   9 = 3*3     51 = 3*17     94 = 2*47    143 = 11*13
  10 = 2*5     55 = 5*11     95 = 5*19    145 = 5*29
  14 = 2*7     57 = 3*19    106 = 2*53    146 = 2*73
  15 = 3*5     58 = 2*29    111 = 3*37    155 = 5*31
  21 = 3*7     62 = 2*31    115 = 5*23    158 = 2*79
  22 = 2*11    65 = 5*13    118 = 2*59    159 = 3*53
  25 = 5*5     69 = 3*23    119 = 7*17    161 = 7*23
  26 = 2*13    74 = 2*37    121 = 11*11   166 = 2*83
  33 = 3*11    77 = 7*11    122 = 2*61    169 = 13*13
  34 = 2*17    82 = 2*41    123 = 3*41    177 = 3*59
  35 = 5*7     85 = 5*17    129 = 3*43    178 = 2*89
  38 = 2*19    86 = 2*43    133 = 7*19    183 = 3*61
  39 = 3*13    87 = 3*29    134 = 2*67    185 = 5*37
(End)

Archimedeans Problems Drive, Eureka, 17 (1954), 8.
Raymond Ayoub, An Introduction to the Analytic Theory of Numbers, Amer. Math. Soc., 1963; Chapter II, Problem 60.
Edmund Landau, Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen, Vol. 1, Teubner, Leipzig; third edition: Chelsea, New York (1974). See p. 211.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
John T. Williams, Pooh and the Philosophers, Dutton Books, 1995.

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000 (first 10000 terms from T. D. Noe)
Dragos Crisan and Radek Erban, On the counting function of semiprimes, INTEGERS, Vol. 21 (2021), #A122.
Daniel A. Goldston, Sidney W. Graham, János Pintz and Cem Y. Yildirim, Small gaps between primes or almost primes, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 361, No. 10 (2009), pp. 5285-5330, arXiv preprint, arXiv:math/0506067 [math.NT], 2005.
Richard K. Guy, Letters to N. J. A. Sloane, June-August 1968
Sh. T. Ishmukhametov and F. F. Sharifullina, On distribution of semiprime numbers, Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Matematika, 2014, No. 8, pp. 53-59. English translation, Russian Mathematics, Vol. 58, No. 8 (2014), pp. 43-48, alternative link.
Donovan Johnson, Jonathan Vos Post, and Robert G. Wilson v, Selected n and a(n). (2.5 MB)
Dixon Jones, Quickie 593, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 3, May 1974, p. 167.
Edmund Landau, Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen, vol. 1 and vol. 2, Leipzig, Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1909. See Vol. 1, p. 211.
Xianmeng Meng, On sums of three integers with a fixed number of prime factors, Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 114, No. 1 (2005), pp. 37-65.
Michael Penn, What makes a number "good"?, YouTube video, 2022.
Carlos Rivera, Conjecture 108: On the counting function of semiprimes, The Prime Puzzles & Problems Connection.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Semiprime.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Almost Prime.
Wikipedia, Almost prime.
Robert G. Wilson v, Subsequences at various powers of 10.
Index to sequences related to sums of cubes
Index entries for "core" sequences

Cf. A064911 (characteristic function).
Cf. A048623, A048639, A000040 (primes), A014612 (products of 3 primes), A014613, A014614, A072000 ("pi" for semiprimes), A065516 (first differences).
Cf. A077554, A077555, A002024, A072966, A100592, A014673, A068318, A061299, A087718, A089994, A089995, A096916, A096932, A106550, A106554, A108541, A108542, A126663, A131284, A138510, A138511, A072931, A088183, A171963, A237040 (semiprimes of form n^3 + 1).
Sequences listing r-almost primes, that is, the n such that A001222(n) = r: A000040 (r=1), this sequence (r=2), A014612 (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).
These are the Heinz numbers of length-2 partitions, counted by A004526.
The squarefree case is A006881 with odd/even terms A046388/A100484 (except 4).
Including primes gives A037143.
The odd/even terms are A046315/A100484.
Partial sums are A062198.
The prime factors are A084126/A084127.
Grouping by greater factor gives A087112.
The product/sum/difference of prime indices is A087794/A176504/A176506.
Positions of even/odd terms are A115392/A289182.
The terms with relatively prime/divisible prime indices are A300912/A318990.
Factorizations using these terms are counted by A320655.
The prime indices are A338898/A338912/A338913.
Grouping by weight (sum of prime indices) gives A338904, with row sums A024697.
The terms with even/odd weight are A338906/A338907.
The terms with odd/even prime indices are A338910/A338911.
The least/greatest term of weight n is A339114/A339115.
Cf. A014342, A098350, A112141, A320732, A332765, A339003/A339004, A339116.

a001358 n = a001358_list !! (n-1)
a001358_list = filter ((== 2) . a001222) [1..]

[n: n in [2..200] | &+[d[2]: d in Factorization(n)] eq 2]; // Bruno Berselli, Sep 09 2015

A001358 := proc(n) option remember; local a; if n = 1 then 4; else for a from procname(n-1)+1 do if numtheory[bigomega](a) = 2 then return a; end if; end do: end if; end proc:
seq(A001358(n), n=1..120) ; # R. J. Mathar, Aug 12 2010

Select[Range[200], Plus@@Last/@FactorInteger[#] == 2 &] (* Zak Seidov, Jun 14 2005 *)
Select[Range[200], PrimeOmega[#]==2&] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 17 2011 *)

select( isA001358(n)={bigomega(n)==2}, [1..199]) \\ M. F. Hasler, Apr 09 2008; added select() Apr 24 2019

list(lim)=my(v=List(),t);forprime(p=2, sqrt(lim), t=p;forprime(q=p, lim\t, listput(v,t*q))); vecsort(Vec(v)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Sep 11 2011

A1358=List(4); A001358(n)={while(#A1358M. F. Hasler, Apr 24 2019

from sympy import factorint
def ok(n): return sum(factorint(n).values()) == 2
print([k for k in range(1, 190) if ok(k)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Apr 30 2022

from math import isqrt
from sympy import primepi, prime
def A001358(n):
    def f(x): return int(n+x-sum(primepi(x//prime(k))-k+1 for k in range(1, primepi(isqrt(x))+1)))
    m, k = n, f(n)
    while m != k:
        m, k = k, f(k)
    return m # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 23 2024

a(n) ~ n*log(n)/log(log(n)) as n -> infinity [Landau, p. 211], [Ayoub].
Recurrence: a(1) = 4; for n > 1, a(n) = smallest composite number which is not a multiple of any of the previous terms. - Amarnath Murthy, Nov 10 2002
A174956(a(n)) = n. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 03 2010
a(n) = A088707(n) - 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 20 2012
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n)^s = (1/2)*(P(s)^2 + P(2*s)), where P is the prime zeta function. - Enrique Pérez Herrero, Jun 24 2012
sigma(a(n)) + phi(a(n)) - mu(a(n)) = 2*a(n) + 1. mu(a(n)) = ceiling(sqrt(a(n))) - floor(sqrt(a(n))). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 21 2013
mu(a(n)) = -Omega(a(n)) + omega(a(n)) + 1, where mu is the Moebius function (A008683), Omega is the count of prime factors with repetition, and omega is the count of distinct prime factors. - Alonso del Arte, May 09 2014
a(n) = A078840(2,n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019
A100484 UNION A046315. - R. J. Mathar, Apr 19 2023
Conjecture: a(n)/n ~ (log(n)/log(log(n)))*(1-(M/log(log(n)))) as n -> oo, where M is the Mertens's constant (A077761). - Alain Rocchelli, Feb 02 2025

More terms from James Sellers, Aug 22 2000

A002808 The composite numbers: numbers n of the form x*y for x > 1 and y > 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

The natural numbers 1,2,... are divided into three sets: 1 (the unit), the primes (A000040) and the composite numbers (A002808).
The number of composite numbers <= n (A065855) = n - pi(n) (A000720) - 1.
n is composite iff sigma(n) + phi(n) > 2n. This is a nice result of the well known theorem: For all positive integers n, n = Sum_{d|n} phi(d). For the proof see my contribution to puzzle 76 of Carlos Rivera's Primepuzzles. - Farideh Firoozbakht, Jan 27 2005, Jan 18 2015
The composite numbers have the semiprimes A001358 as primitive elements.
A211110(a(n)) > 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 02 2012
A060448(a(n)) > 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 05 2012
A086971(a(n)) > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 14 2012
Composite numbers n which are the product of r=A001222(n) prime numbers are sometimes called r-almost primes. Sequences listing r-almost primes are: A000040 (r = 1), A001358 (r = 2), A014612 (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
a(n) = A056608(n) * A160180(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 29 2014
Degrees for which there are irreducible polynomials which are reducible mod p for all primes p, see Brandl. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Sep 04 2014
An integer is composite if and only if it is the sum of strictly positive integers in arithmetic progression with common difference 2: 4 = 1 + 3, 6 = 2 + 4, 8 = 3 + 5, 9 = 1 + 3 + 5, etc. - Jean-Christophe Hervé, Oct 02 2014
This statement holds since k+(k+2)+...+k+2(n-1) = n*(n+k-1) = a*b with arbitrary a,b (taking n=a and k=b-a+1 if b>=a). - M. F. Hasler, Oct 04 2014
For n > 4, these are numbers n such that n!/n^2 = (n-1)!/n is an integer (see A056653). - Derek Orr, Apr 16 2015
Let f(x) = Sum_{i=1..x} Sum_{j=2..i-1} cos((2*Pi*x*j)/i). It is known that the zeros of f(x) are the prime numbers. So these are the numbers n such that f(n) > 0. - Michel Lagneau, Oct 13 2015
Numbers n that can be written as solutions of the Diophantine equation n = (x+2)(y+2) where {x,y} in N^2, pairs of natural numbers including zero (cf. Mathematica code and Davis). - Ron R Spencer and Bradley Klee, Aug 15 2016
Numbers n with a partition (containing at least two summands) so that its summands also multiply to n. If n is prime, there is no way to find those two (or more) summands. If n is composite, simply take a factor or several, write those divisors and fill with enough 1's so that they add up to n. For example: 4 = 2*2 = 2+2, 6 = 1*2*3 = 1+2+3, 8 = 1*1*2*4 = 1+1+2+4, 9 = 1*1*1*3*3 = 1+1+1+3+3. - Juhani Heino, Aug 02 2017

T. M. Apostol, Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1976, page 2.
A. E. Bojarincev, Asymptotic expressions for the n-th composite number, Univ. Mat. Zap. 6:21-43 (1967). - In Russian.
John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See p. 127.
Martin Davis, "Algorithms, Equations, and Logic", pp. 4-15 of S. Barry Cooper and Andrew Hodges, Eds., "The Once and Future Turing: Computing the World", Cambridge 2016.
R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems Number Theory, Section A.
G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. 3rd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1954, p. 2.
D. R. Hofstadter, Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Random House, 1980, p. 66.
Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics, Wiley, 2005; see p. 51.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..17737 [composites up to 20000]
Rolf Brandl, Integer polynomials that are reducible modulo all primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 93 (1986), pp. 286-288.
C. K. Caldwell, Composite Numbers
Felix Huber, Illustration for a(1)-a(12)
Laurentiu Panaitopol, Some properties of the series of composed [sic] numbers, Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics 2:3 (2001).
Carlos Rivera, Puzzle 76, z(n)=sigma(n) + phi(n) - 2n, The Prime Puzzles and Problems Connection.
J. Barkley Rosser and Lowell Schoenfeld, Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers, Illinois J. Math. 6 1962 64-94
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Composite Number
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences from "Goedel, Escher, Bach"

Complement of A008578. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 16 2016
Cf. A000040, A018252, A065090, A136527.
Cf. A073783 (first differences), A073445 (second differences).
Boustrophedon transforms: A230954, A230955.
Cf. A163870 (nontrivial divisors).
Related sequences:
Primes (p) and composites (c): A000040, A002808, A000720, A065855.
Primes between p(n) and 2*p(n): A063124, A070046; between c(n) and 2*c(n): A376761; between n and 2*n: A035250, A060715, A077463, A108954.
Composites between p(n) and 2*p(n): A246514; between c(n) and 2*c(n): A376760; between n and 2*n: A075084, A307912, A307989, A376759.

a002808 n = a002808_list !! (n-1)
a002808_list = filter ((== 1) . a066247) [2..]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 04 2012

[n: n in [2..250] | not IsPrime(n)]; // G. C. Greubel, Feb 24 2024

t := []: for n from 2 to 20000 do if isprime(n) then else t := [op(t),n]; fi; od: t; remove(isprime,[$3..89]); # Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 19 2007
A002808 := proc(n) option remember ; local a ; if n = 1 then 4; else for a from procname(n-1)+1 do if not isprime(a) then return a; end if; end do ; end if; end proc; # R. J. Mathar, Oct 27 2009

Select[Range[2,100], !PrimeQ[#]&] (* Zak Seidov, Mar 05 2011 *)
With[{nn=100},Complement[Range[nn],Prime[Range[PrimePi[nn]]]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 01 2012 *)
Select[Range[100], CompositeQ] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 07 2021 *)

A002808(n)=for(k=0,primepi(n),isprime(n++)&&k--);n \\ For illustration only: see below. - M. F. Hasler, Oct 31 2008

A002808(n)= my(k=-1); while(-n + n += -k + k=primepi(n),); n \\ For n=10^4 resp. 3*10^4, this is about 100 resp. 500 times faster than the former; M. F. Hasler, Nov 11 2009

forcomposite(n=1, 1e2, print1(n, ", ")) \\ Felix Fröhlich, Aug 03 2014

for(n=1, 1e3, if(bigomega(n) > 1, print1(n, ", "))) \\ Altug Alkan, Oct 14 2015

from sympy import primepi
def A002808(n):
    m, k = n, primepi(n) + 1 + n
    while m != k:
        m, k = k, primepi(k) + 1 + n
    return m # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 15 2015, updated Apr 14 2016

from sympy import isprime
def ok(n): return n > 1 and not isprime(n)
print([k for k in range(89) if ok(k)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Nov 07 2021

next_A002808=lambda n: next(n for n in range(n,n*5)if not isprime(n)) # next composite >= n > 0; next_A002808(n)==n <=> iscomposite(n). - M. F. Hasler, Mar 28 2025
is_A002808=lambda n:not isprime(n) and n>1 # where isprime(n) can be replaced with: all(n%d for d in range(2, int(n**.5)+1))
# generators of composite numbers:
A002808_upto=lambda stop=1<<59: filter(is_A002808, range(2,stop))
A002808_seq=lambda:(q:=2)and(n for p in primes if (o:=q)<(q:=p) for n in range(o+1,p)) # with, e.g.: primes=filter(isprime,range(2,1<<59)) # M. F. Hasler, Mar 28 2025

[n for n in (2..250) if not is_prime(n)] # G. C. Greubel, Feb 24 2024

a(n) = pi(a(n)) + 1 + n, where pi is the prime counting function.
a(n) = A136527(n, n).
A000005(a(n)) > 2. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 17 2009
A001222(a(n)) > 1. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 30 2009
A000203(a(n)) < A007955(a(n)). - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Mar 17 2011
A066247(a(n)) = 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 05 2012
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n)^s = Zeta(s)-1-P(s), where P is prime zeta. - Enrique Pérez Herrero, Aug 08 2012
n + n/log n + n/log^2 n < a(n) < n + n/log n + 3n/log^2 n for n >= 4, see Panaitopol. Bojarincev gives an asymptotic version. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 23 2012
a(n) > n + A000720(n) + 1. - François Huppé, Jan 08 2025

Deleted an incomplete and broken link. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 16 2010

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

			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)

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

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Edmund Landau, Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen, vol. 1 and vol. 2, Leipzig, Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1909. See Vol. 1, p. 211.
Xianmeng Meng, On sums of three integers with a fixed number of prime factors, Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 114 (2005), pp. 37-65.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Almost Prime

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.
Cf. A000212, A000217, A046389, A140106, A307719, A321773.

a014612 n = a014612_list !! (n-1)
a014612_list = filter ((== 3) . a001222) [1..] -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 02 2012

with(numtheory); A014612:=n->`if`(bigomega(n)=3, n, NULL); seq(A014612(n), n=1..250) # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Feb 05 2014

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 *)

isA014612(n)=bigomega(n)==3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 07 2011

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

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

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

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)

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

More terms from Patrick De Geest, Jun 15 1998

A014613 Numbers that are products of 4 primes.

Original entry on oeis.org

16, 24, 36, 40, 54, 56, 60, 81, 84, 88, 90, 100, 104, 126, 132, 135, 136, 140, 150, 152, 156, 184, 189, 196, 198, 204, 210, 220, 225, 228, 232, 234, 248, 250, 260, 276, 294, 296, 297, 306, 308, 315, 328, 330, 340, 342, 344, 348, 350, 351, 364, 372, 375, 376

Offset: 1

Eric W. Weisstein

nonn

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
J. H. Conway, Heiko Dietrich and E. A. O'Brien, Counting groups: gnus, moas and other exotica, Math. Intell., Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring 2008.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Almost Prime.

Cf. A033987, A114106 (number of 4-almost primes <= 10^n).

Sequences listing r-almost primes, that is, the n such that A001222(n) = r: A000040 (r = 1), A001358 (r = 2), A014612 (r = 3), this sequence (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

Select[Range[200], Plus @@ Last /@ FactorInteger[ # ] == 4 &] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Apr 23 2008 *)
Select[Range[400], PrimeOmega[#] == 4&] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 17 2014 *)

isA014613(n) = bigomega(n)==4 \\ Michael B. Porter, Dec 13 2009

from sympy import factorint
def ok(n): return sum(factorint(n).values()) == 4
print([k for k in range(377) if ok(k)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Nov 19 2021

from math import isqrt
from sympy import primepi, primerange, integer_nthroot
def A014613(n):
    def f(x): return int(n+x-sum(primepi(x//(k*m*r))-c for a,k in enumerate(primerange(integer_nthroot(x,4)[0]+1)) for b,m in enumerate(primerange(k,integer_nthroot(x//k,3)[0]+1),a) for c,r in enumerate(primerange(m,isqrt(x//(k*m))+1),b)))
    m, k = n, f(n)
    while m != k:
        m, k = k, f(k)
    return m # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 17 2024

Product p_i^e_i with Sum e_i = 4.
a(n) ~ 6n log n / (log log n)^3. - Charles R Greathouse IV, May 04 2013
a(n) = A078840(4,n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019

More terms from Patrick De Geest, Jun 15 1998

A014614 Numbers that are products of 5 primes (or 5-almost primes, a generalization of semiprimes).

Original entry on oeis.org

32, 48, 72, 80, 108, 112, 120, 162, 168, 176, 180, 200, 208, 243, 252, 264, 270, 272, 280, 300, 304, 312, 368, 378, 392, 396, 405, 408, 420, 440, 450, 456, 464, 468, 496, 500, 520, 552, 567, 588, 592, 594, 612, 616, 630, 656, 660, 675, 680, 684, 688, 696

Offset: 1

Eric W. Weisstein

nonn

Divisible by exactly 5 prime powers (not including 1).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Almost Prime

Cf. A046304, A114453 (number of 5-almost primes <= 10^n).

Sequences listing r-almost primes, that is, the n such that A001222(n) = r: A000040 (r = 1), A001358 (r = 2), A014612 (r = 3), A014613 (r = 4), this sequence (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

Select[Range[300], Plus @@ Last /@ FactorInteger[ # ] == 5 &] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Apr 23 2008 *)

is(n)=bigomega(n)==5 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 20 2013

from math import isqrt
from sympy import primepi, primerange, integer_nthroot
def A014614(n):
    def f(x): return int(n+x-sum(primepi(x//(k*m*r*s))-d for a,k in enumerate(primerange(integer_nthroot(x,5)[0]+1)) for b,m in enumerate(primerange(k,integer_nthroot(x//k,4)[0]+1),a) for c,r in enumerate(primerange(m,integer_nthroot(x//(k*m),3)[0]+1),b) for d,s in enumerate(primerange(r,isqrt(x//(k*m*r))+1),c)))
    m, k = n, f(n)
    while m != k:
        m, k = k, f(k)
    return m # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 17 2024

Product p_i^e_i with sum e_i = 5.
a(n) ~ 24n log n/(log log n)^4. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 20 2013
a(n) = A078840(5,n). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 30 2019

More terms from Scott Lindhurst (ScottL(AT)alumni.princeton.edu) and Patrick De Geest, Jun 15 1998

A030516 Numbers with 7 divisors. 6th powers of primes.

Original entry on oeis.org

64, 729, 15625, 117649, 1771561, 4826809, 24137569, 47045881, 148035889, 594823321, 887503681, 2565726409, 4750104241, 6321363049, 10779215329, 22164361129, 42180533641, 51520374361, 90458382169, 128100283921

Offset: 1

Jeff Burch

These are the numbers p^6 with p prime. - Jorge Coveiro, Apr 13 2004

The n-th number with p divisors is equal to the n-th prime raised to power p-1, where p is prime. - Omar E. Pol, May 06 2008

R. J. Mathar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
OEIS Wiki, Index entries for number of divisors
Index to sequences related to prime signature

Subsequence of A046306.

Cf. A013664, A050997, A085966, A131993, A000005, A000040, A001248, A030514, A258603, A269404.

a030516 = (^ 6) . a000040
a030516_list = map (^ 6) a000040_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 03 2015

[NthPrime(n)^6: n in [1..400]];  // Bruno Berselli, Jul 30 2011

Array[Prime[ # ]^6&,60] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Dec 14 2009 *)

for(n=1,1e3,print1(prime(n)^6", "));  \\ Bruno Berselli, Jul 30 2011

[p**6 for p in prime_range(100)]
# Zerinvary Lajos, May 16 2007

a(n) = A000040(n)^(7-1) = A000040(n)^6. - Omar E. Pol, May 06 2008
A056595(a(n)) = 3. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 15 2011
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = P(6) = 0.0170700868... (A085966). - Amiram Eldar, Jul 27 2020
From Amiram Eldar, Jan 23 2021: (Start)
Product_{n>=1} (1 + 1/a(n)) = zeta(6)/zeta(12) = 675675/(691*Pi^6) (A269404).
Product_{n>=1} (1 - 1/a(n)) = 1/zeta(6) = 945/Pi^6 = 1/A013664. (End)

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A109026 Numbers that have exactly six prime factors counted with multiplicity (A046306) whose digit reversal is different and also has 6 prime factors (with multiplicity).

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A114406 6-almost prime gaps. First differences of A046306.

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A337463 Numbers k such that k, k+1, k+2 and k+3 are products of 6 primes (A046306).

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A001222 Number of prime divisors of n counted with multiplicity (also called big omega of n, bigomega(n) or Omega(n)).

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A001358 Semiprimes (or biprimes): products of two primes.

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A002808 The composite numbers: numbers n of the form x*y for x > 1 and y > 1.

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