This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A280890 #11 Jan 29 2017 01:28:21 %S A280890 2,4,16,1296,9681819840000 %N A280890 Minimum number k such that n iterations of products of prime factor exponents are required to reduce k to 1. %H A280890 MathOverflow, <a href="http://mathoverflow.net/questions/143743/product-of-exponents-of-prime-factorization">Product of Exponents of Prime Factorization</a>. %e A280890 The term a(5) = 9681819840000, which factors as 2^9*3^6*5^4*7^3*11^2, because 9*6*4*3*2 = 1296 = 2^4*3^4 and 4*4 = 16 = 2^4 and 4 = 2^2 and 2 = 2^1 gives 1 in 5 iterations of products of prime exponents -- and no smaller positive integer has this property (see link). %t A280890 Table[k = 1; While[Length@ NestWhileList[Times @@ (FactorInteger[#][[All, -1]]) &, k, # > 1 &] - 1 != n, k++]; k, {n, 4}] (* _Michael De Vlieger_, Jan 25 2017 *) %Y A280890 Cf. A005361. %K A280890 nonn,hard %O A280890 1,1 %A A280890 _Rick L. Shepherd_, Jan 09 2017