A066888 Number of primes p between triangular numbers T(n) < p <= T(n+1).

0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 6, 6, 7, 5, 5, 6, 4, 8, 5, 6, 6, 8, 6, 8, 5, 7, 5, 11, 4, 6, 9, 7, 8, 9, 8, 7, 7, 9, 7, 8, 7, 12, 5, 9, 9, 11, 9, 7, 7, 12, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 6, 11, 10, 11, 9, 12, 11, 12, 9, 10, 11, 12, 10, 13, 9, 11, 10, 12

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 06 2003

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

Comments

It is conjectured that for n > 0, a(n) > 0. See also A190661. - John W. Nicholson, May 18 2011

If the above conjecture is true, then for any k > 1 there is a prime p > k such that p <= (n+1)(n+2)/2, where n = floor(sqrt(2k)+1/2). Ignoring the floor function we can obtain a looser (but nicer) lower bound of p <= 1 + k + 2*sqrt(2k). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Nov 26 2016

Examples

			Write the numbers 1, 2, ... in a triangle with n terms in the n-th row; a(n) = number of primes in n-th row.
Triangle begins
   1              (0 primes)
   2  3           (2 primes)
   4  5  6        (1 prime)
   7  8  9 10     (1 prime)
  11 12 13 14 15  (2 primes)
		

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000

Crossrefs

Cf. A083382.

Essentially the same as A065382 and A090970.

Cf. A000217, A000040, A014085, A190661.

Programs

Mathematica

Table[PrimePi[(n^2 + n)/2] - PrimePi[(n^2 - n)/2], {n, 96}] (* Alonso del Arte, Sep 03 2011 *)
PrimePi[#[[2]]]-PrimePi[#[[1]]]&/@Partition[Accumulate[Range[0,100]],2,1] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 04 2019 *)

PARI

{ tp(m)=local(r, t); r=1; for(n=1,m,t=0; for(k=r,n+r-1,if(isprime(k),t++)); print1(t","); r=n+r; ) }

PARI

{tpf(m)=local(r, t); r=1; for(n=1,m,t=0; for(k=r,n+r-1,if(isprime(k),t++); print1(k" ")); print1(" ("t" prime)"); print(); r=n+r;) }

Python

from sympy import primerange
def A066888(n): return sum(1 for p in primerange((n*(n+1)>>1)+1,((n+2)*(n+1)>>1)+1)) # Chai Wah Wu, May 22 2025

Formula

a(n) = pi(n*(n+1)/2) - pi(n*(n-1)/2).

a(n) equals the number of occurrences of n+1 in A057062. - Esko Ranta, Jul 29 2011

Extensions

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic and Jason Earls, Jun 06 2003

Offset corrected by Daniel Forgues, Sep 05 2012