OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Where record values of d(n) occur: d(n) > d(k) for all k < n.
A002183 is the RECORDS transform of A000005, i.e., lists the corresponding values d(n) for n in A002182.
Flammenkamp's page also has a copy of the missing Siano paper.
Highly composite numbers are the product of primorials, A002110. See A112779 for the number of primorial terms in the product of a highly composite number. - Jud McCranie, Jun 12 2005
Sigma and tau for highly composite numbers through the 146th entry conform to a power fit as follows: log(sigma)=A*log(tau)^B where (A,B) =~ (1.45,1.38). - Bill McEachen, May 24 2006
a(n) often corresponds to P(n,m) = number of permutations of n things taken m at a time. Specifically, if start=1, pointers 1-6, 9, 10, 13-15, 17-19, 22, 23, 28, 34, 37, 43, 52, ... An example is a(37)=665280, which is P(12,6)=12!/(12-6)!. - Bill McEachen, Feb 09 2009
Concerning the previous comment, if m=1, then P(n,m) can represent any number. So let's assume m > 1. Searching the first 1000 terms, the only indices of terms of the form P(n,m) are 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31, 34, 37, 41, 43, 44, 47, 50, 52, and 54. Note that a(44) = 4324320 = P(2079,2). See A163264. - T. D. Noe, Jun 10 2009
A large number of highly composite numbers have 9 as their digit root. - Parthasarathy Nambi, Jun 07 2009
Because 9 divides all highly composite numbers greater than 1680, those numbers have digital root 9. - T. D. Noe, Jul 24 2009
See A181309 for highly composite numbers that are not highly abundant.
a(n) is also defined by the recurrence: a(1) = 1, a(n+1)/sigma(a(n+1)) < a(n) / sigma(a(n)). - Michel Lagneau, Jan 02 2012 [NOTE: This "definition" is wrong (a(20)=7560 does not satisfy this inequality) and incomplete: It does not determine a sequence uniquely, e.g., any subsequence would satisfy the same relation. The intended meaning is probably the definition of the (different) sequence A004394. - M. F. Hasler, Sep 13 2012]
Up to a(1000), the terms beyond a(5) = 12 resp. beyond a(9) = 60 are a multiples of these. Is this true for all subsequent terms? - M. F. Hasler, Sep 13 2012 [Yes: see EXAMPLE in A199337! - M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2020]
Differs from the superabundant numbers from a(20)=7560 on, which is not in A004394. The latter is not a subsequence of A002182, as might appear from considering the displayed terms: The two sequences have only 449 terms in common, the largest of which is A002182(2567) = A004394(1023). See A166735 for superabundant numbers that are not highly composite, and A004394 for further information. - M. F. Hasler, Sep 13 2012
It seems that a(n) +- 1 is often prime. For n <= 1000 there are 210 individual primes and 17 pairs of twin primes. See link to Lim's paper below. - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Mar 02 2019
There are infinitely many numbers in this sequence and a(n+1) <= 2*a(n), because it is sufficient to multiply a(n) by 2 to get a number having more divisors. (This proves Guess 0 in the Lim paper.) For n = (1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 18, ...) one has equality in this bound, but asymptotically a(n+1)/a(n) goes to 1, cf. formula due to Erdős. See A068507 for the terms such that a(n)+-1 are twin primes. - M. F. Hasler, Jun 23 2019
Conjecture: For n > 7, a(n) is a Zumkeller number (A083207). Verified for n up to and including 48. If this conjecture is true, one may base on it an alternative proof of the fact that for n>7 a(n) is not a perfect square (see Fact 5, Rao/Peng arXiv link at A083207). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jun 29 2019
The conjecture above is true (see the proof in the "Links" section). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Jan 31 2020
The first instance of omega(a(n)) < omega(a(n-1)) (omega = A001221: number of prime divisors) is at a(26) = 45360. Up to n = 10^4, 1759 terms have this property, but omega decreases by 2 only at indices n = 5857, 5914 and 5971. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 02 2020
Inequality (54) in Ramanujan (1915) implies that for any m there is n* such that m | a(n) for all n > n*: see A199337 for the proof. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2020
REFERENCES
CRC Press Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th Ed, p. 61.
J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 180, p. 56, Ellipses, Paris 2008.
L. E. Dickson, History of Theory of Numbers, I, p. 323.
Ross Honsberger, An introduction to Ramanujan's Highly Composite Numbers, Chap. 14 pp. 193-200 Mathematical Gems III, DME no. 9 MAA 1985
Jean-Louis Nicolas, On highly composite numbers, pp. 215-244 in Ramanujan Revisited, Editors G. E. Andrews et al., Academic Press 1988
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, 128.
LINKS
Michael De Vlieger, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (obtained from A. Flammenkamp's data; first 1000 terms from T. D. Noe)
Yu. Bilu, P. Habegger, and L. Kühne, Effective bounds for singular units, arXiv:1805.07167 [math.NT], 2018.
Benjamin Braun and Brian Davis, Antichain Simplices, arXiv:1901.01417 [math.CO], 2019.
Harold W. Ellingsen, Jr., A Fresh Look at Highly Composite Numbers, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 126, No. 8 (2019), pp. 740-741.
Paul Erdős, On Highly composite numbers, J. London Math. Soc., Vol. 19 (1944), pp. 130-133, MR7,145d; Zentralblatt 61,79.
Achim Flammenkamp, Highly composite numbers.
Achim Flammenkamp, List of the first 1200 highly composite numbers.
Achim Flammenkamp, List of the first 779,674 highly composite numbers.
James Grime and Brady Haran, 5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers, Numberphile video (2016).
Bob Hinman, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Aug. 1980.
Ivan N. Ianakiev, On the question "Which Highly composite numbers (A002182) are Zumkeller numbers (A083207)?".
Stepan Kochemazov, Oleg Zaikin, Eduard Vatutin, and Alexey Belyshev, Enumerating Diagonal Latin Squares of Order Up to 9, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.1.2.
Aneesh M. Koya and P. P. Deepthi, Plug and play self-configurable IoT gateway node for telemonitoring of ECG, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 112 (2019), 103359.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, An elementary problem equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, Am. Math. Monthly 109 (#6, 2002), 534-543; arXiv:math/0008177 [math.NT], 2000-2001.
Bill Lauritzen, Versatile Numbers -Versatile Economics.
Benny Lim, Prime Numbers Generated From Highly Composite Numbers, Parabola Magazine, Volume 54, Issue 3, (2018).
R. J. Mathar, Output of above Maple program. [Uncompresses to 9.1 MB]
Graeme McRae, Highly Composite Numbers.
Jean-Louis Nicolas, Ordre maximal d'un élément du groupe S_n de permutations et 'highly composite numbers' (Text in French).
Jean-Louis Nicolas and Guy Robin, Highly Composite Numbers by Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Ramanujan Journal, Vol. 1(2), pp. 119-153, Kluwer Academics Pub.
Kevin O'Bryant, PlanetMath.org, Highly composite number.
S. Ramanujan, Highly composite numbers, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Ser. 2, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (1915), pp. 347-409. (DOI: 10.1112/plms/s2_14.1.347, also available with an additional footnote in the PDF at http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/published/ram15.html)
Steven Ratering, An interesting subset of the highly composite numbers, Math. Mag., Vol. 64, No. 5 (1991), pp. 343-346.
Guy Robin, Méthodes d'optimisation pour un problème de théorie des nombres, RAIRO Informatique Théorique, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1983), pp. 239-247.
Vladimir Shevelev, On Erdős constant, arXiv:1605.08884 [math.NT], 2016.
D. B. Siano and J. D. Siano, An Algorithm for Generating Highly Composite Numbers, 1994.
N. J. A. Sloane, Transforms.
Michel Waldschmidt, From highly composite numbers to transcendental number theory, 2013.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Highly Composite Number.
Wikipedia, Highly composite number.
FORMULA
Also, for n >= 2, smallest values of p for which A006218(p)-A006318(p-1) = A002183(n). - Philippe LALLOUET (philip.lallouet(AT)wanadoo.fr), Jun 23 2007
a(n+1) < a(n) * (1+log(a(n))^-c) for some positive c (see Erdős). - David A. Corneth, May 16 2016
a(n+1) <= 2*a(n). For cases where the equal sign holds, see A072938. - A.H.M. Smeets, Jul 10 2021
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = A352418. - Amiram Eldar, Mar 24 2022
EXAMPLE
a(5) = 12 is in the sequence because A000005(12) is larger than any earlier value in A000005. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2020
MATHEMATICA
a = 0; Do[b = DivisorSigma[0, n]; If[b > a, a = b; Print[n]], {n, 1, 10^7}]
(* Convert A. Flammenkamp's 779674-term dataset; first, decompress, rename "HCN.txt": *)
a = Times @@ {Times @@ Prime@ Range@ ToExpression@ First@ #1, If[# == {}, 1, Times @@ MapIndexed[Prime[First@ #2]^#1 &, #]] &@ DeleteCases[-1 + Flatten@ Map[If[StringFreeQ[#, "^"], ToExpression@ #, ConstantArray[#1, #2] & @@ ToExpression@ StringSplit[#, "^"]] &, #2], 0]} & @@ TakeDrop[StringSplit@ #, 1] & /@ Import["HCN.txt", "Data"] (* Michael De Vlieger, May 08 2018 *)
DeleteDuplicates[Table[{n, DivisorSigma[0, n]}, {n, 2163000}], GreaterEqual[ #1[[2]], #2[[2]]]&] [[All, 1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 13 2022 *)
NestList[Function[last,
Module[{d = DivisorSigma[0, last]},
NestWhile[# + 1 &, last, DivisorSigma[0, #] <= d &]]], 1, 40] (* Steven Lu, Mar 30 2023 *)
PROG
(PARI) print1(r=1); forstep(n=2, 1e5, 2, if(numdiv(n)>r, r=numdiv(n); print1(", "n))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 10 2011
(PARI) v002182 = [1]/*vector for memoization*/; A002182(n, i = #v002182) ={ if(n > i, v002182 = Vec(v002182, n); my(k = v002182[i], d, s=1); until(i == n, d = numdiv(k); s<60 && k>=60 && s=60; until(numdiv(k += s) > d, ); v002182[i++] = k); k, v002182[n])} \\ Antti Karttunen, Jun 06 2017; edited by M. F. Hasler, Jan 03 2020 and Jun 20 2022
(PARI) is_A002182(n, a=1, b=1)={while(n>A002182(b*=2), a*=2); until(a>b, my(m=(a+b)\2, t=A002182(m)); if(t<n, a = m+1, t>n, b=m-1, return(m)))} \\ Also used in other sequences. - M. F. Hasler, Jun 20 2022
(Python)
from sympy import divisor_count
A002182_list, r = [], 0
for i in range(1, 10**4):
d = divisor_count(i)
if d > r:
r = d
A002182_list.append(i) # Chai Wah Wu, Mar 23 2015
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000005 (number of divisors), A002110, A002183, A002473, A004394, A025487, A106037, A108602, A112778, A112779, A112780, A112781, A006218, A126098, A002201, A072938, A094348, A003418, A161184, A037992 (infinitary analog), A108951, A329902, A352418.
Cf. A261100 (a left inverse).
Cf. A002808. - Peter J. Marko, Aug 16 2018
Cf. A279930 (highly composite and highly Brazilian).
Cf. A068507 (terms such that a(n)+-1 are twin primes).
Cf. A199337 (number of terms not divisible by n).
KEYWORD
nonn,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Jun 19 1996: Changed beginning to start at 1.
Jul 10 1996: Matthew Conroy points out that these are different from the super-abundant numbers - see A004394. Last 8 terms sent by J. Lowell; checked by Jud McCranie.
Description corrected by Gerard Schildberger and N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 04 2001
Additional references from Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 24 2001
STATUS
approved