A234899 Record holders for lengths of ever-decreasing aliquot sequences.

1, 2, 4, 9, 14, 16, 26, 46, 52, 166, 212, 1113, 2343, 4437, 5145, 8535, 10665, 18711, 33682, 64935, 114808, 187232, 228316, 304412, 464132, 556636, 623288, 1230284, 1319956, 1508504, 2897884, 3835556, 7487494, 9446906, 16871648, 22328212, 29668150, 29725184

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Author

Michel Marcus, Jan 01 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

If one looks at the lengths of uninterrupted decreasing aliquot sequences, the converse of A081705, one gets a sequence similar to A098008, except for perfect or abundant numbers, but also for numbers that encounter a perfect or abundant numbers in this process.

The current sequence lists the deficient numbers yielding uninterrupted decreasing aliquot sequences that are longer than any previous ones (compare with A081699).

Note that, so far, the lengths of the corresponding sequences are contiguous. Does it remain so for next terms?

Examples

			The aliquot sequence starting at 2 decreases as follows 2->1->0 and is longer than the sequence starting at 1. Hence 2 is in the sequence.
		

Links

• Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..59

Crossrefs

Cf. A081699, A081705, A098008.

Programs

PARI

nbdecr(n) = {nb = 0; while (n && ((newn = sigma(n)-n)) < n, n = newn ; nb++); nb;}
lista(nn) = {recab = 0; for (ni = 1, nn, ab = nbdecr(ni); if (ab > recab, recab = ab; print1(ni, ", ")););}