A280892 Squareful numbers with both neighbors squarefree.
4, 12, 16, 18, 20, 32, 36, 40, 52, 54, 56, 60, 68, 72, 84, 88, 90, 92, 96, 104, 108, 112, 128, 132, 140, 144, 150, 156, 160, 162, 164, 180, 184, 192, 196, 198, 200, 204, 212, 216, 220, 228, 232, 234, 236, 240, 248, 250, 252, 256, 264, 268, 270, 272, 284, 292, 294, 300, 304, 306, 308, 312
Offset: 1
Examples
4 is in this sequence because 4 = 2^2 is nonsquarefree and both 4 - 1 = 3 and 4 + 1 = 5 are squarefree.
Links
- Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from Harvey P. Dale)
- Michael J. Mossinghoff, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, and Tim Trudgian, The distribution of k-free numbers, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 90, No. 328 (2021), pp. 907-929; arXiv preprint, arXiv:1912.04972 [math.NT], 2019-2020.
Programs
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Magma
[n: n in [2..300] | not IsSquarefree(n) and IsSquarefree(n-1) and IsSquarefree(n+1)];
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Mathematica
Mean/@SequencePosition[Table[If[SquareFreeQ[n],1,0],{n,400}],{1,0,1}] (* Requires Mathematica version 10 or later *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 19 2020 *)
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PARI
isok(n) = !issquarefree(n) && issquarefree(n-1) && issquarefree(n+1); \\ Michel Marcus, Jun 18 2017
Extensions
Definition corrected by Jon E. Schoenfield, Jun 18 2017
Comments