[seqfan] Re: Definition of A255231

[Neil Sloane]

Richard,  I think you are right.  It is not obvious to me
what the author intended. The terms look to be simply wrong.

I suggest you go ahead and make all the corrections that are needed.




Best regards
Neil

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Richard J. Mathar <mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de>
wrote:

> Can someone comment on the definition in A255231? I find for example
> a(8) = 2 because 8 has the two representations 8^1 =2^3. 2^1*4^1 is not
> counted because this has two distinct bases but only one distint exponent.
> 8=2^1*2^2 is not counted because there is one discinct base and two
> distinct
> exponents.
>
> For n=36 I find the representations 36^1 = 6^2 = 3^2*4^1 = 2^2*9^1, so
> a(36)=4,
> not 3 as in the example.
>
> My variant of the sequence starts for n=1..36 as
> 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2,
> 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 4
>
> Richard
>
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