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A057957
Number of prime factors of 4^n - 1 (counted with multiplicity).
19
1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 7, 3, 6, 7, 5, 3, 10, 3, 8, 8, 7, 4, 10, 7, 7, 9, 8, 6, 13, 3, 7, 9, 7, 9, 14, 5, 7, 8, 10, 5, 14, 5, 10, 13, 9, 6, 13, 5, 14, 11, 10, 6, 15, 12, 11, 9, 9, 6, 17, 3, 8, 14, 9, 9, 15, 5, 11, 9, 16, 6, 19, 6, 10, 14, 11, 10, 18, 5, 13, 16, 10, 8, 19, 7, 10, 11
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
Max Alekseyev, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1122 (first 603 terms from Amiram Eldar)
S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project
FORMULA
Mobius transform of A085029. - T. D. Noe, Jun 19 2003
a(n) = A001222(A024036(n)) = A046051(2*n). - Amiram Eldar, Feb 01 2020
MATHEMATICA
PrimeOmega/@(4^Range[90]-1) (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 31 2018 *)
CROSSREFS
bigomega(b^n-1): A057951 (b=10), A057952 (b=9), A057953 (b=8), A057954 (b=7), A057955 (b=6), A057956 (b=5), this sequence (b=4), A057958 (b=3), A046051 (b=2).
Sequence in context: A020481 A066660 A361687 * A359507 A366660 A241686
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Patrick De Geest, Nov 15 2000
STATUS
approved