A113689 Number of semiprimes in clumps of size > 1 through n^2 in the semiprime spiral.

0, 0, 2, 6, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31, 37, 45, 54, 59, 72, 77, 83, 93, 104, 116, 125, 140, 150, 164, 180, 188, 203, 219, 236, 255, 272, 287, 301, 317, 334, 354, 378, 403, 419, 430, 450, 475, 498, 521, 542, 560, 588, 608, 626, 652, 677, 698

Offset: 1

Author

Jonathan Vos Post, Nov 05 2005

Keywords

• easy
• nonn

Comments

Write the integers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... in a counterclockwise square spiral. Analogous to Ulam coloring in the primes in the spiral and discovering unexpectedly many connected diagonals, we construct a semiprime spiral by coloring in all semiprimes (A001358). Each integer has 8 adjacent integers in the spiral, horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Curious extended clumps coagulate, slightly denser towards the origin, of semiprimes connected by adjacency. This sequence, A113689, gives an enumeration of the number of semiprimes in clumps of size > 1 through n^2, not looking past the square boundary. A113688 gives isolated semiprimes in the semiprime spiral, namely those semiprimes none of whose adjacent integers in the spiral are semiprimes.

Examples

			a(3) = 2 because there is one visible clump through 3^2 = 9, {4,6}, which two semiprimes are diagonally connected.
a(4) = 6 because there are 6 semiprimes in the 2 visible clumps through 4^2 = 16, {4, 6, 14, 15}, {9, 10}.
a(5) = 9 because there are 9 semiprimes in the 3 visible clumps through 5^2 = 25, {4, 6, 14, 15}, {9, 10, 25}, {21, 22}.
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... 17 16 15 14 13 ...
... 18  5  4  3 12 ...
... 19  6  1  2 11 ...
... 20  7  8  9 10 ...
... 21 22 23 24 25 ...
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References

• S. M. Ellerstein, The square spiral, J. Recreational Mathematics 29 (#3, 1998) 188; 30 (#4, 1999-2000), 246-250.

Links

• M. Stein and S. M. Ulam, An Observation on the Distribution of Primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 74, 43-44, 1967.
• M. Stein, S. M. Ulam and M. B. Wells, A Visual Display of Some Properties of the Distribution of Primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 71, 516-520, 1964.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Spiral.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Semiprime

Crossrefs

Cf. A001107, A001358, A002939, A002943, A004526, A005620, A007742, A033951-A033954, A033988, A033989-A033991, A033996, A063826, A113688.

Extensions

Corrected and extended by Alois P. Heinz, Jan 02 2011