A122615 Largest integer which cannot be written as a sum of n-th powers of primes.
0, 1, 23, 154, 1199, 5314, 34928, 256117, 1565279, 6519069, 49304891, 362617861, 1121432591, 13059091501, 34313897584, 202096681135, 1912393561610, 6341902873937, 54356644026512, 175476300288281, 1352729779867857, 5937475586243116, 39152549345560551
Offset: 0
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Examples
a(0) = 0 because all positive integers can be written as a sum of 0th powers of primes, i.e. as sums of 1. a(1) = 1 because 2^1 = 2, 3^1 = 3, hence all positive integers 2 or larger can be written as a*2 + b*3 for a,b nonnegative integers [2 = 2, 3 = 3, 4 = 2+2, 5 = 2+3, 6 = 2+2+2 = 3+3, 7 = 2+2+3, ...]. a(2) = 23 because all integers 24 or larger can be written as a sum of squares and in fact as a sum of squares of primes. a(3) = 154 because all integers 155 or larger can be written as a sum of cubes of primes.
Links
- Mike Oakes, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
- H. Greenberg, Solution to a linear diophantine equation for nonnegative integers, Journal of Algorithms, 9 (1988), 343-353
Programs
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Mathematica
a[0] = 0; a[n_] := Block[{k = 4, f}, While[Prime[k]^n <= (f = FrobeniusNumber[ Prime[ Range@ k]^n]), k++]; f]; a /@ Range[0, 10] (* Giovanni Resta, Jun 13 2016 *)
Extensions
a(4)-a(22) from Giovanni Resta, Jun 12 2016
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