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This sequence is infinite since the asymptotic density of A130091 is 0.

The corresponding values of the record gaps are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 20, 22, 29, 33, 40, 51, 55, 59, 67, 72, 82, 84, 87, 100, 121, 126, 132, 138, 147, 149, 150, 195, 209, 211, ...

a(n) depends only on prime signature of n (cf. A025487). a(m) = a(n) iff m and n have the same prime signature, i.e., iff A046523(m) = A046523(n).

Because A046523 (the smallest representative of prime signature of n) and this sequence are functions of each other as A046523(n) = A181821(a(n)) and a(n) = a(A046523(n)), it implies that for all i, j: a(i) = a(j) <=> A046523(i) = A046523(j) <=> A101296(i) = A101296(j), i.e., that equivalence-class-wise this is equal to A101296, and furthermore, applying any function f on this sequence gives us a sequence b(n) = f(a(n)) whose equivalence class partitioning is equal to or coarser than that of A101296, i.e., b is then a sequence that depends only on the prime signature of n (the multiset of exponents of its prime factors), although not necessarily in a very intuitive way. - Antti Karttunen, Apr 28 2022

Fill, Janson and Ward refer to these partitions as Wilf partitions. - Peter Luschny, Jun 04 2012

Compositions into distinct parts are equivalent to (1,1)-avoiding compositions. - Gus Wiseman, Jun 25 2020

All terms are odd. - Alois P. Heinz, Apr 09 2021

The fixed points of the x -> A181819(x) map are 1 and 2. Note that the x -> A000005(x) map has the same fixed points, and that A000005(n) = A181819(n) iff n is cubefree (cf. A004709). Under the x -> A181819(x) map, it seems significantly easier to generalize about which kinds of integers take a given number of iterations to reach a fixed point than under the x -> A000005(x) map.

Also the number of steps in the reduction of the multiset of prime factors of n wherein one repeatedly takes the multiset of multiplicities. For example, the a(90) = 5 steps are {2,3,3,5} -> {1,1,2} -> {1,2} -> {1,1} -> {2} -> {1}. - Gus Wiseman, May 13 2018

Suppose that p = x(1) >= x(2) >= ... >= x(k) is a partition of n. Let y(1) > y(2) > ... > y(h) be the distinct parts of p, and let m(i) be the multiplicity of y(i) for 1 <= i <= h. Then we can "look" at p as "m(1) y(1)'s and m(2) y(2)'s and ... m(h) y(h)'s". Reversing the m's and y's, we can then "say" the Look-and-Say partition of p, denoted by LS(p). The name "Look-and-Say" follows the example of Look-and-Say integer sequences (e.g., A005150). As p ranges through the partitions of n, LS(p) ranges through all the Look-and-Say partitions of n. The number of these is A239455(n).

The Look-and-Say array is distinct from the Wilf array, described at A098859; for example, the number of Look-and-Say partitions of 9 is A239455(9) = 16, whereas the number of Wilf partitions of 9 is A098859(9) = 15. The Look-and-Say partition of 9 which is not a Wilf partition of 9 is [2,2,2,1,1,1].

Conjecture: a partition is Look-and-Say iff it has a permutation with all distinct run-lengths. For example, the partition y = (2,2,2,1,1,1) has the permutation (2,2,1,1,1,2), with run-lengths (2,3,1), which are all distinct, so y is counted under a(9). - Gus Wiseman, Aug 11 2025

Also the number of integer partitions y of n such that there is a pairwise disjoint way to choose a strict integer partition of each multiplicity (or run-length) of y. - Gus Wiseman, Aug 11 2025

Product of first n primorials: a(n) = Product_{i=1..n} A002110(i).

Superprimorials, from primorials by analogy with superfactorials.

Smallest number k with n distinct exponents in its prime factorization, i.e., A071625(k) = n.

Subsequence of A130091. - Reinhard Zumkeller, May 06 2007

Hankel transform of A171448. - Paul Barry, Dec 09 2009

This might be a good place to explain the name "Chernoff sequence" since his name does not appear in the References or Links as of Mar 22 2014. - Jonathan Sondow, Mar 22 2014

Pickover (1992) named this sequence after Paul Chernoff of California, who contributed this sequence to his book. He was possibly referring to American mathematician Paul Robert Chernoff (1942 - 2017), a professor at the University of California. - Amiram Eldar, Jul 27 2020

First differs from A130091 (Wilf partitions) in having 216.

See A239455 for the definition of Look-and-Say partitions.

The Heinz number of a partition (y_1,...,y_k) is prime(y_1)*...*prime(y_k). This gives a bijective correspondence between positive integers and integer partitions.

Also the number of nonnegative integer n X n matrices with sum of elements equal to n, under row and column permutations, with no equal rows (or alternatively, with no equal columns).

Also the number of non-isomorphic multiset partitions of weight n with no equivalent vertices. In a multiset partition, two vertices are equivalent if in every block the multiplicity of the first is equal to the multiplicity of the second.

If the prime power factors p^e of n are replaced by prime(e)^pi(p), then the prime terms q in the sequence pertain to 2^m with m > 1, since pi(2) = 1. - Michael De Vlieger, Apr 25 2017

Also the Heinz number of the integer partition obtained by applying the map described in A217605 (which interchanges the parts with their multiplicities) to the integer partition with Heinz number n, where the Heinz number of an integer partition (y_1,...,y_k) is prime(y_1)*...*prime(y_k). The image of this map (which is the union of this sequence) is A130091. - Gus Wiseman, May 04 2019