[seqfan] Re: Cases n>9?

israel at math.ubc.ca israel at math.ubc.ca
Mon Mar 27 07:12:12 CEST 2023


Finding the least such n may indeed be hard, but it's not that hard 
to find one such n: e.g. 144812890624.

Cheers,
Robert

On Mar 26 2023, Allan Wechsler wrote:

>So we are looking for a number n such that n, n+1, and 2n + 1 all have
>exactly 10 prime factors, counted with multiplicity. This is obviously
>quite hard; I don't see any obvious tricks that avoid brute-force search.
>Anybody want to spend a bunch of CPU on this? Or are there some shortcuts
>that I am missing?
>
>On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 10:10PM zak seidov via SeqFan <
>seqfan at list.seqfan.eu> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone solve cases n>9? I spend 2-3 days to no avail:( {for (m = 1, 
>> 10, n = 2; while (m != bigomega (n) || m != bigomega (n + 1) || m != 
>> bigomega (2*n + 1), n++); print (m ", " n ", "))}1, 2,2, 25,3, 171,4, 
>> 1592,5, 37975,6, 928624,7, 8412687,8, 106390624,9, 2306890624, Thx,Zak
>>
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