A090623 Triangle of T(n,k) = [n/k] + [n/k^2] + [n/k^3] + [n/k^4] + ... for n, k > 1.

1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 11, 5, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 11, 6, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1

Offset: 2

Author

Henry Bottomley, Dec 06 2003

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl
• changed

Examples

			Rows start:
  1;
  1,1;
  3,1,1;
  3,1,1,1;
  4,2,1,1,1;
  4,2,1,1,1,1;
  7,2,2,1,1,1,1;
  7,4,2,1,1,1,1,1;
  8,4,2,2,1,1,1,1,1;
  ...
		

Links

• Zhuorui He, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..11326
• Wenguang Zhai, On the prime power factorization of n!, Journal of Number Theory, Volume 129, Issue 8, August 2009, Pages 1820-1836.

Crossrefs

Columns include A011371, A054861, A054893, A027868, A054895, A054896, A054897, A054898, A054899, A064458, A064459, A090620, A054900.

Row sums: A078632.

Cf. A240236.

Programs

PARI

T(n,k) = {my(s = 0, j = 1); while(p=n\k^j, s += p; j++); s;} \\ Michel Marcus, Feb 02 2016

PARI

T(n,k) = (n - sumdigits(n,k))/(k-1) \\ Zhuorui He, Aug 25 2025

Formula

For p prime, T(n, p) = A090622(n, p) is the number of times that p is a factor of n!.

T(n,k) = (n - A240236(n, k))/(k - 1). - Zhuorui He, Aug 25 2025

Extensions

a(41) onward corrected by Zhuorui He, Aug 25 2025