Composites between primes
Max
relf at unn.ac.ru
Wed Feb 1 18:31:57 CET 2006
Eric Angelini wrote:
> Hello SeqFan,
> is this of interest?
>
> 2,4,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16,18,20,21,23,24,25,26,27,28,30,32,37...
> P ^ ^ P ^ ^ ^ ^ P. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ P. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ P.
> 2 4 6 7 ...
>
> Self-describing sequence : A(n) indicates the quantity
> of composite numbers which are between two successive
> primes.
> (this is not an accurate definition -- please help me to
> rephrase!)
But where are primes 3,5,11,etc. in the first row?
> If this is of interest, could someone compute more terms?
If the first row contained all positive integers, then you sequence would be
the first difference of the function
nthprime(n) - n = A014689(n)
that is
A014689(n+1)-A014689(n).
Max
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