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A000961 Powers of primes. Alternatively, 1 and the prime powers (p^k, p prime, k >= 1).

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 41, 43, 47, 49, 53, 59, 61, 64, 67, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 121, 125, 127, 128, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, 169, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

The term "prime power" is ambiguous. To a mathematician it means any number p^k, p prime, k >= 0, including p^0 = 1.
Any nonzero integer is a product of primes and units, where the units are +1 and -1. This is tied to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic which proves that the factorizations are unique up to order and units. (So, since 1 = p^0 does not have a well defined prime base p, it is sometimes not regarded as a prime power. See A246655 for the sequence without 1.)
These numbers are (apart from 1) the numbers of elements in finite fields. - Franz Vrabec, Aug 11 2004
Numbers whose divisors form a geometrical progression. The divisors of p^k are 1, p, p^2, p^3, ..., p^k. - Amarnath Murthy, Jan 09 2002
These are also precisely the orders of those finite affine planes that are known to exist as of today. (The order of a finite affine plane is the number of points in an arbitrarily chosen line of that plane. This number is unique for all lines comprise the same number of points.) - Peter C. Heinig (algorithms(AT)gmx.de), Aug 09 2006
Except for first term, the index of the second number divisible by n in A002378, if the index equals n. - Mats Granvik, Nov 18 2007
These are precisely the numbers such that lcm(1,...,m-1) < lcm(1,...,m) (=A003418(m) for m>0; here for m=1, the l.h.s. is taken to be 0). We have a(n+1)=a(n)+1 if a(n) is a Mersenne prime or a(n)+1 is a Fermat prime; the converse is true except for n=7 (from Catalan's conjecture) and n=1, since 2^1-1 and 2^0+1 are not considered as Mersenne resp. Fermat prime. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 18 2007, Apr 18 2010
The sequence is A000015 without repetitions, or more formally, A000961=Union[A000015]. - Zak Seidov, Feb 06 2008
Except for a(1)=1, indices for which the cyclotomic polynomial Phi[k] yields a prime at x=1, cf. A020500. - M. F. Hasler, Apr 04 2008
Also, {A138929(k) ; k>1} = {2*A000961(k) ; k>1} = {4,6,8,10,14,16,18,22,26,32,34,38,46,50,54,58,62,64,74,82,86,94,98,...} are exactly the indices for which Phi[k](-1) is prime. - M. F. Hasler, Apr 04 2008
A143201(a(n)) = 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 12 2008
Number of distinct primes dividing n=omega(n) < 2. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 30 2009
Numbers n such that Sum_{p-1|p is prime and divisor of n} = Product_{p-1|p is prime and divisor of n}. A055631(n) = A173557(n-1). - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Dec 09 2009, Mar 10 2010
Numbers n such that A028236(n) = 1. Klaus Brockhaus, Nov 06 2010
A188666(k) = a(k+1) for k: 2*a(k) <= k < 2*a(k+1), k > 0; notably a(n+1) = A188666(2*a(n)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 25 2011
A003415(a(n)) = A192015(n); A068346(a(n)) = A192016(n); a(n)=A192134(n) + A192015(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 26 2011
A089233(a(n)) = 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 04 2013
The positive integers n such that every element of the symmetric group S_n which has order n is an n-cycle. - W. Edwin Clark, Aug 05 2014
Conjecture: these are numbers m such that Sum_{k=0..m-1} k^phi(m) == phi(m) (mod m), where phi(m) = A000010(m). - Thomas Ordowski and Giovanni Resta, Jul 25 2018
Numbers whose (increasingly ordered) divisors are alternatingly squares and nonsquares. - Michel Marcus, Jan 16 2019
Possible numbers of elements in a finite vector space. - Jianing Song, Apr 22 2021

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 870.
M. Koecher and A. Krieg, Ebene Geometrie, Springer, 1993.
R. Lidl and H. Niederreiter, Introduction to Finite Fields and Their Applications, Cambridge 1986, Theorem 2.5, p. 45.
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).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
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].
Chris Bispels, Matthew Cohen, Joshua Harrington, Joshua Lowrance, Kaelyn Pontes, Leif Schaumann, and Tony W. H. Wong, A further investigation on covering systems with odd moduli, arXiv:2507.16135 [math.NT], 2025. See p. 3.
Brady Haran and Günter Ziegler, Cannons and Sparrows, Numberphile video (2018).
Laurentiu Panaitopol, Some of the properties of the sequence of powers of prime numbers, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Volume 31, Number 4, Winter 2001.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Power
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Projective Plane
Index entries for "core" sequences

There are four different sequences which may legitimately be called "prime powers": A000961 (p^k, k >= 0), A246655 (p^k, k >= 1), A246547 (p^k, k >= 2), A025475 (p^k, k=0 and k >= 2). When you refer to "prime powers", be sure to specify which of these you mean. Also A001597 is the sequence of nontrivial powers n^k, n >= 1, k >= 2. - N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 24 2018
Cf. A008480, A010055, A065515, A095874, A025473.
Cf. indices of record values of A003418; A000668 and A019434 give a member of twin pairs a(n+1)=a(n)+1.
A138929(n) = 2*a(n).
Cf. A000040, A001221, A001477. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Dec 09 2009
A028236 (if n = Product (p_j^k_j), a(n) = numerator of Sum 1/p_j^k_j). - Klaus Brockhaus, Nov 06 2010
A000015(n) = Min{term : >= n}; A031218(n) = Max{term : <= n}.
Complementary (in the positive integers) to sequence A024619. - Jason Kimberley, Nov 10 2015

import Data.Set (singleton, deleteFindMin, insert)
a000961 n = a000961_list !! (n-1)
a000961_list = 1 : g (singleton 2) (tail a000040_list) where
g s (p:ps) = m : g (insert (m * a020639 m) $ insert p s') ps
where (m, s') = deleteFindMin s
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, May 01 2012, Apr 25 2011

[1] cat [ n : n in [2..250] | IsPrimePower(n) ]; // corrected by Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Jul 20 2012

readlib(ifactors): for n from 1 to 250 do if nops(ifactors(n)[2])=1 then printf(`%d,`,n) fi: od:
# second Maple program:
a:= proc(n) option remember; local k; for k from
      1+a(n-1) while nops(ifactors(k)[2])>1 do od; k
    end: a(1):=1: A000961:= a:
seq(a(n), n=1..100);  # Alois P. Heinz, Apr 08 2013

Select[ Range[ 2, 250 ], Mod[ #, # - EulerPhi[ # ] ] == 0 & ]
Select[ Range[ 2, 250 ], Length[FactorInteger[ # ] ] == 1 & ]
max = 0; a = {}; Do[m = FactorInteger[n]; w = Sum[m[[k]][[1]]^m[[k]][[2]], {k, 1, Length[m]}]; If[w > max, AppendTo[a, n]; max = w], {n, 1, 1000}]; a (* Artur Jasinski *)
Join[{1}, Select[Range[2, 250], PrimePowerQ]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 07 2015 *)

A000961(n,l=-1,k=0)=until(n--<1,until(lA000961(lim=999,l=-1)=for(k=1,lim, l==lcm(l,k) && next; l=lcm(l,k); print1(k,",")) \\ M. F. Hasler, Jan 18 2007

isA000961(n) = (omega(n) == 1 || n == 1) \\ Michael B. Porter, Sep 23 2009

nextA000961(n)=my(m,r,p);m=2*n;for(e=1,ceil(log(n+0.01)/log(2)),r=(n+0.01)^(1/e);p=prime(primepi(r)+1);m=min(m,p^e));m \\ Michael B. Porter, Nov 02 2009

is(n)=isprimepower(n) || n==1 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 20 2012

list(lim)=my(v=primes(primepi(lim)),u=List([1])); forprime(p=2,sqrtint(lim\1),for(e=2,log(lim+.5)\log(p),listput(u,p^e))); vecsort(concat(v,Vec(u))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 20 2012

from sympy import primerange
def A000961_list(limit): # following Python style, list terms < limit
    L = [1]
    for p in primerange(1, limit):
        pe = p
        while pe < limit:
            L.append(pe)
            pe *= p
    return sorted(L) # Chai Wah Wu, Sep 08 2014, edited by M. F. Hasler, Jun 16 2022

from sympy import primepi
from sympy.ntheory.primetest import integer_nthroot
def A000961(n):
    def f(x): return int(n+x-1-sum(primepi(integer_nthroot(x,k)[0]) for k in range(1,x.bit_length())))
    m, k = n, f(n)
    while m != k:
        m, k = k, f(k)
    return m # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 23 2024

def A000961_list(n):
    R = [1]
    for i in (2..n):
        if i.is_prime_power(): R.append(i)
    return R
A000961_list(227) # Peter Luschny, Feb 07 2012

a(n) = A025473(n)^A025474(n). - David Wasserman, Feb 16 2006
a(n) = A117331(A117333(n)). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 08 2006
Panaitopol (2001) gives many properties, inequalities and asymptotics, including a(n) ~ prime(n). - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 31 2014, corrected by M. F. Hasler, Jun 12 2023 [The reference gives pi*(x) = pi(x) + pi(sqrt(x)) + ... where pi*(x) counts the terms up to x, so it is the inverse function to a(n).]
m=a(n) for some n <=> lcm(1,...,m-1) < lcm(1,...,m), where lcm(1...0):=0 as to include a(1)=1. a(n+1)=a(n)+1 <=> a(n+1)=A019434(k) or a(n)=A000668(k) for some k (by Catalan's conjecture), except for n=1 and n=7. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 18 2007, Apr 18 2010
A001221(a(n)) < 2. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 30 2009
A008480(a(n)) = 1 for all n >= 1. - Alois P. Heinz, May 26 2018
Sum_{k=1..n} 1/a(k) ~ log(log(a(n))) + 1 + A077761 + A136141. - François Huppé, Jul 31 2024

Description modified by Ralf Stephan, Aug 29 2014

A003418 Least common multiple (or LCM) of {1, 2, ..., n} for n >= 1, a(0) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 60, 420, 840, 2520, 2520, 27720, 27720, 360360, 360360, 360360, 720720, 12252240, 12252240, 232792560, 232792560, 232792560, 232792560, 5354228880, 5354228880, 26771144400, 26771144400, 80313433200, 80313433200, 2329089562800, 2329089562800

Offset: 0

Roland Anderson (roland.anderson(AT)swipnet.se)

The minimal exponent of the symmetric group S_n, i.e., the least positive integer for which x^a(n)=1 for all x in S_n. - Franz Vrabec, Dec 28 2008
Product over all primes of highest power of prime less than or equal to n. a(0) = 1 by convention.
Also smallest number whose set of divisors contains an n-term arithmetic progression. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Dec 09 2002
An assertion equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis is: | log(a(n)) - n | < sqrt(n) * log(n)^2. - Lekraj Beedassy, Aug 27 2006. (This is wrong for n = 1 and n = 2. Should "for n large enough" be added? - Georgi Guninski, Oct 22 2011)
Corollary 3 of Farhi gives a proof that a(n) >= 2^(n-1). - Jonathan Vos Post, Jun 15 2009
Appears to be row products of the triangle T(n,k) = b(A010766) where b = A130087/A130086. - Mats Granvik, Jul 08 2009
Greg Martin (see link) proved that "the product of the Gamma function sampled over the set of all rational numbers in the open interval (0,1) whose denominator in lowest terms is at most n" equals (2*Pi)^(1/2)*a(n)^(-1/2). - Jonathan Vos Post, Jul 28 2009
a(n) = lcm(A188666(n), A188666(n)+1, ..., n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 25 2011
a(n+1) is the smallest integer such that all polynomials a(n+1)*(1^i + 2^i + ... + m^i) in m, for i=0,1,...,n, are polynomials with integer coefficients. - Vladimir Shevelev, Dec 23 2011
It appears that A020500(n) = a(n)/a(n-1). - Asher Auel, corrected by Bill McEachen, Apr 05 2024
n-th distinct value = A051451(n). - Matthew Vandermast, Nov 27 2009
a(n+1) = least common multiple of n-th row in A213999. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 03 2012
For n > 2, (n-1) = Sum_{k=2..n} exp(a(n)*2*i*Pi/k). - Eric Desbiaux, Sep 13 2012
First column minus second column of A027446. - Eric Desbiaux, Mar 29 2013
For n > 0, a(n) is the smallest number k such that n is the n-th divisor of k. - Michel Lagneau, Apr 24 2014
Slowest growing integer > 0 in Z converging to 0 in Z^ when considered as profinite integer. - Herbert Eberle, May 01 2016
What is the largest number of consecutive terms that are all equal? I found 112 equal terms from a(370261) to a(370372). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, May 05 2019
Answer: there exist arbitrarily long sequences of consecutive terms with the same value; also, the maximal run of consecutive terms with different values is 5 from a(1) to a(5) (see link Roger B. Eggleton). - Bernard Schott, Aug 07 2019
Related to the inequality (54) in Ramanujan's paper about highly composite numbers A002182, also used in A199337: a(A329570(m))^2 is a (not minimal) bound above which all highly composite numbers are divisible by m, according to the right part of that inequality. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 04 2020
For n > 2, a(n) is of the form 2^e_1 * p_2^e_2 * ... * p_m^e_m, where e_m = 1 and e = floor(log_2(p_m)) <= e_1. Therefore, 2^e * p_m^e_m is a primitive Zumkeler number (A180332). Therefore, 2^e_1 * p_m^e_m is a Zumkeller number (A083207). Therefore, for n > 2, a(n) = 2^e_1 * p_m^e_m * r, where r is relatively prime to 2*p_m, is a Zumkeller number (see my proof at A002182 for details). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, May 10 2020
For n > 1, 2|(a(n)+2) ... n|(a(n)+n), so a(n)+2 .. a(n)+n are all composite and (part of) a prime gap of at least n.  (Compare n!+2 .. n!+n). - Stephen E. Witham, Oct 09 2021

			LCM of {1,2,3,4,5,6} = 60. The primes up to 6 are 2, 3 and 5. floor(log(6)/log(2)) = 2 so the exponent of 2 is 2.
floor(log(6)/log(3)) = 1 so the exponent of 3 is 1.
floor(log(6)/log(5)) = 1 so the exponent of 5 is 1. Therefore, a(6) = 2^2 * 3^1 * 5^1 = 60. - _David A. Corneth_, Jun 02 2017

J. M. Borwein and P. B. Borwein, Pi and the AGM, Wiley, 1987, p. 365.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..2308 (first 501 terms from T. D. Noe)
R. Anderson and N. J. A. Sloane, Correspondence, 1975.
Dorin Andrica, Sorin Rădulescu, and George Cătălin Ţurcaş, The Exponent of a Group: Properties, Computations and Applications, Disc. Math. and Applications, Springer, Cham (2020), 57-108.
Javier Cilleruelo, Juanjo Rué, Paulius Šarka, and Ana Zumalacárregui, The least common multiple of sets of positive integers, arXiv:1112.3013 [math.NT], 2011.
R. E. Crandall and C. Pomerance, Prime numbers: a computational perspective, MR2156291, p. 61.
Roger B. Eggleton, Least Common Multiple of {1,2,...,n}, Mathematics Magazine, 61(1) (1988), pp. 47-48, Problem 1252.
Bakir Farhi, An identity involving the least common multiple of binomial coefficients and its application, arXiv:0906.2295 [math.NT], 2009.
Bakir Farhi, An identity involving the least common multiple of binomial coefficients and its application, Amer. Math. Monthly 116(9) (2009), 836-839.
Steven Finch, Cilleruelo's LCM Constants, 2013. [Cached copy, with permission of the author]
V. L. Gavrikov, On property of least common multiple to be a D-magic number, arXiv:1806.09264 [math.NT], 2018.
S. Labbé and E. Pelantová, Palindromic sequences generated from marked morphisms, arXiv:1409.7510 [math.CO], 2014.
J. C. Lagarias, An elementary problem equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, Am. Math. Monthly 109 (6) (2002) 534-543. arXiv:math/0008177 [math.NT], 2000-2001.
Peter Luschny and S. Wehmeier, The lcm(1, 2, ..., n) as a product of sine values sampled over the points in Farey sequences, arXiv:0909.1838 [math.CA], 2009.
Des MacHale and Joseph Manning, Maximal runs of strictly composite integers, The Mathematical Gazette, 99, pp 213-219 (2015).
Greg Martin, A product of Gamma function values at fractions with the same denominator, arXiv:0907.4384 [math.CA], 2009.
M. Nair, On Chebychev-type inequalities for primes Amer. Math. Monthly 89(2) (1982), 126-129.
S. Ramanujan, Highly composite numbers, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society ser. 2, vol. XIV, no. 1 (1915), pp 347-409. (A variant of a better quality with an additional footnote is available here.)
E. S. Selmer, On the number of prime divisors of a binomial coefficient, Math. Scand. 39 (1976), no. 2, 271-281 (1977).
Jonathan Sondow, Criteria for irrationality of Euler's constant, Proc. AMS 131 (2003), 3335.
Rosemary Sullivan and Neil Watling, Independent divisibility pairs on the set of integers from 1 to n, INTEGERS 13 (2013) #A65.
M. Tchebichef, Mémoire sur les nombres premiers, J. Math. Pures Appliquées 17 (1852), 366-390.
Helge von Koch, Sur la distribution des nombres premiers, Acta Math. 24 (1) (1901), 159-182.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Least Common Multiple, Chebyshev Functions, Mangoldt Function.
Index to divisibility sequences
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to lcm's

Row products of A133233.
Cf. A000142, A000793, A002110, A002182, A002201, A002944, A014963, A020500, A025527, A038610, A051173, A064446, A064859, A069513, A072938, A093880, A094348, A096179, A099996, A102910, A106037, A119682, A179661, A193181, A225558, A225630, A225632, A225640, A225642.
Cf. A025528 (number of prime factors of a(n) with multiplicity).
Cf. A275120 (lengths of runs of consecutive equal terms), A276781 (ordinal transform from term a(1)=1 onward).

a003418 = foldl lcm 1 . enumFromTo 2
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 04 2012, Apr 25 2011

[1] cat [Exponent(SymmetricGroup(n)) : n in [1..28]]; // Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Sep 10 2013

[Lcm([1..n]): n in [0..30]]; // Bruno Berselli, Feb 06 2015

A003418 := n-> lcm(seq(i,i=1..n));
HalfFarey := proc(n) local a,b,c,d,k,s; a := 0; b := 1; c := 1; d := n; s := NULL; do k := iquo(n + b, d); a, b, c, d := c, d, k*c - a, k*d - b; if 2*a > b then break fi; s := s,(a/b); od: [s] end: LCM := proc(n) local i; (1/2)*mul(2*sin(Pi*i),i=HalfFarey(n))^2 end: # Peter Luschny
# next Maple program:
a:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n=0, 1, ilcm(n, a(n-1))) end:
seq(a(n), n=0..33);  # Alois P. Heinz, Jun 10 2021

Table[LCM @@ Range[n], {n, 1, 40}] (* Stefan Steinerberger, Apr 01 2006 *)
FoldList[ LCM, 1, Range@ 28]
A003418[0] := 1; A003418[1] := 1; A003418[n_] := A003418[n] = LCM[n,A003418[n-1]]; (* Enrique Pérez Herrero, Jan 08 2011 *)
Table[Product[Prime[i]^Floor[Log[Prime[i], n]], {i, PrimePi[n]}], {n, 0, 28}] (* Wei Zhou, Jun 25 2011 *)
Table[Product[Cyclotomic[n, 1], {n, 2, m}], {m, 0, 28}] (* Fred Daniel Kline, May 22 2014 *)
a1[n_] := 1/12 (Pi^2+3(-1)^n (PolyGamma[1,1+n/2] - PolyGamma[1,(1+n)/2])) // Simplify
a[n_] := Denominator[Sqrt[a1[n]]];
Table[If[IntegerQ[a[n]], a[n], a[n]*(a[n])[[2]]], {n, 0, 28}] (* Gerry Martens, Apr 07 2018 [Corrected by Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 16 2021] *)

a(n)=local(t); t=n>=0; forprime(p=2,n,t*=p^(log(n)\log(p))); t

a(n)=if(n<1,n==0,1/content(vector(n,k,1/k)))

a(n)=my(v=primes(primepi(n)),k=sqrtint(n),L=log(n+.5));prod(i=1,#v,if(v[i]>k,v[i],v[i]^(L\log(v[i])))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 21 2011

a(n)=lcm(vector(n,i,i)) \\ Bill Allombert, Apr 18 2012 [via Charles R Greathouse IV]

n=1; lim=100; i=1; j=1; until(n==lim, a=lcm(j,i+1); i++; j=a; n++; print(n" "a);); \\ Mike Winkler, Sep 07 2013

from functools import reduce
from operator import mul
from sympy import sieve
def integerlog(n,b): # find largest integer k>=0 such that b^k <= n
    kmin, kmax = 0,1
    while b**kmax <= n:
        kmax *= 2
    while True:
        kmid = (kmax+kmin)//2
        if b**kmid > n:
            kmax = kmid
        else:
            kmin = kmid
        if kmax-kmin <= 1:
            break
    return kmin
def A003418(n):
    return reduce(mul,(p**integerlog(n,p) for p in sieve.primerange(1,n+1)),1) # Chai Wah Wu, Mar 13 2021

# generates initial segment of sequence
from math import gcd
from itertools import accumulate
def lcm(a, b): return a * b // gcd(a, b)
def aupton(nn): return [1] + list(accumulate(range(1, nn+1), lcm))
print(aupton(30)) # Michael S. Branicky, Jun 10 2021

[lcm(range(1,n)) for n in range(1, 30)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Jun 06 2009

(define (A003418 n) (let loop ((n n) (m 1)) (if (zero? n) m (loop (- n 1) (lcm m n))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Jan 03 2018

The prime number theorem implies that lcm(1,2,...,n) = exp(n(1+o(1))) as n -> infinity. In other words, log(lcm(1,2,...,n))/n -> 1 as n -> infinity. - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 17 2005
a(n) = Product (p^(floor(log n/log p))), where p runs through primes not exceeding n (i.e., primes 2 through A007917(n)). - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 27 2004
Greg Martin showed that a(n) = lcm(1,2,3,...,n) = Product_{i = Farey(n), 0 < i < 1} 2*Pi/Gamma(i)^2. This can be rewritten (for n > 1) as a(n) = (1/2)*(Product_{i = Farey(n), 0 < i <= 1/2} 2*sin(i*Pi))^2. - Peter Luschny, Aug 08 2009
Recursive formula useful for computations: a(0)=1; a(1)=1; a(n)=lcm(n,a(n-1)). - Enrique Pérez Herrero, Jan 08 2011
From Enrique Pérez Herrero, Jun 01 2011: (Start)
a(n)/a(n-1) = A014963(n).
if n is a prime power p^k then a(n)=a(p^k)=p*a(n-1), otherwise a(n)=a(n-1).
a(n) = Product_{k=2..n} (1 + (A007947(k)-1)*floor(1/A001221(k))), for n > 1. (End)
a(n) = A079542(n+1, 2) for n > 1.
a(n) = exp(Sum_{k=1..n} Sum_{d|k} moebius(d)*log(k/d)). - Peter Luschny, Sep 01 2012
a(n) = A025529(n) - A027457(n). - Eric Desbiaux, Mar 14 2013
a(n) = exp(Psi(n)) = 2 * Product_{k=2..A002088(n)} (1 - exp(2*Pi*i * A038566(k+1) / A038567(k))), where i is the imaginary unit, and Psi the second Chebyshev's function. - Eric Desbiaux, Aug 13 2014
a(n) = A064446(n)*A038610(n). - Anthony Browne, Jun 16 2016
a(n) = A000142(n) / A025527(n) = A000793(n) * A225558(n). - Antti Karttunen, Jun 02 2017
log(a(n)) = Sum_{k>=1} (A309229(n, k)/k - 1/k). - Mats Granvik, Aug 10 2019
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jul 24 2020: (Start)
Nair (1982) proved that 2^n <= a(n) <= 4^n for n >= 9. See also Farhi (2009). Nair also proved that
a(n) = lcm(m*binomial(n,m): 1 <= m <= n) and
a(n) = gcd(a(m)*binomial(n,m): n/2 <= m <= n). (End)
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = A064859. - Bernard Schott, Aug 24 2020

A000015 Smallest prime power >= n.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 9, 11, 11, 13, 13, 16, 16, 16, 17, 19, 19, 23, 23, 23, 23, 25, 25, 27, 27, 29, 29, 31, 31, 32, 37, 37, 37, 37, 37, 41, 41, 41, 41, 43, 43, 47, 47, 47, 47, 49, 49, 53, 53, 53, 53, 59, 59, 59, 59, 59, 59, 61, 61, 64, 64, 64, 67, 67, 67, 71, 71, 71, 71, 73

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

The length of the m-th run of {a(n)} is the length of the (m-1)-st run of A031218 for m > 1. - Colin Linzer, Mar 08 2024

David W. Wilson, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Power.

Cf. A000961, A031218.

a000015 n = a000015_list !! (n-1)
a000015_list = 1 : concat
   (zipWith(\pp qq -> replicate (fromInteger (pp - qq)) pp)
           (tail a000961_list) a000961_list)
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 17 2011, Apr 25 2011

N:= 1000: # to get all terms <= N
Primes:= select(isprime,{$1..N}):
PPs:= {1} union Primes:
for k from 1 to ilog2(N) do
   PPs:= PPs union map(`^`, select(`<=`,Primes, floor(N^(1/k))),k)
od:
PPs:= sort(convert(PPs,list)):
1, seq(PPs[i]$(PPs[i]-PPs[i-1]), i=2..nops(PPs)); # Robert Israel, Jul 23 2015

Insert[Table[m:=n;While[Not[Length[FactorInteger[m]]==1],m++ ];m,{n,2,100}], 1, 1] (* Stefan Steinerberger, Apr 17 2006 *)
a[n_] := NestWhile[# + 1 &, n, Not@*PrimePowerQ]; (* Matthew House, Jul 14 2015, v6.0+ *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 2, Boole[n == 1], Module[{m = n}, While[ ! PrimePowerQ[ m], m++]; m]]; (* Michael Somos, Mar 06 2018 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, 0, Module[{m = n}, While[ Length[ FactorInteger @ m ] != 1, m++]; m]]; (* Michael Somos, Mar 06 2018 *)

{a(n) = if( n<1, 0, while(matsize(factor(n))[1]>1, n++); n)}; /* Michael Somos, Jul 16 2002 */

a(n)=if(n>1,while(!isprimepower(n),n++));n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 01 2013

from itertools import count
from sympy import factorint
def A000015(n): return next(filter(lambda m:len(factorint(m))<=1, count(n))) # Chai Wah Wu, Oct 25 2024

[next_prime_power(n) for n in range(72)]  # Zerinvary Lajos, Jun 13 2009

a(A110654(n+1)) = A188666(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 25 2011, corrected by M. F. Hasler, Jul 25 2015

a(n) = A188666(2n-1). - M. F. Hasler, Jul 25 2015

More terms from Michael Somos, Jul 16 2002

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A000961 Powers of primes. Alternatively, 1 and the prime powers (p^k, p prime, k >= 1).

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