PS: A124184: prime factorization of 1?
Leroy Quet
qq-quet at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 7 18:41:51 CET 2006
Zak Seidov wrote:
>
>>Dear seqfans,
>>
>>In A124184,
>>shouldn't we omit 1
>>(I omit it, while Leroy includes)?
>>
>>What is prime factorization of 1?
>>...
>
I wrote:
>I SHOULD have included a comment that the 1 case is controversial.
>Someone might argue that, since 1 has no prime factors and therefore
>hasn't any (positive) prime-factorization exponents, then none of 1's
>prime-factorization exponents divide 1.
>;)
>(And so, technically, 1 meets the definition of the sequence....sort of..)
>
>
>So I included the 1 in the event someone searching for this sequence on
>the OEIS includes a 1 at the beginning of the sequence they are searching
>for.
Also it occurs to me that I don't say in the sequence's definition that
only the prime-factorization exponents that are positive (ie nonzero) are
to be considered.
Now 0 doesn't divide any positive integer, so the terms > 1 are not
affected by considering the 0 exponents. But all of 1's
prime-factorization exponents are 0, and 0 does not divide 1. So I think
it is best to include 1 in the sequence.
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
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