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A074998
Composite numbers which are sandwiched between two numbers having the same unordered canonical form.
2
4, 6, 12, 18, 30, 34, 42, 51, 55, 56, 60, 72, 86, 92, 94, 102, 108, 138, 142, 144, 150, 160, 180, 184, 186, 192, 198, 202, 204, 214, 216, 218, 220, 228, 236, 240, 243, 248, 249, 266, 270, 282, 300, 302, 304, 312, 320, 322, 328, 340, 341, 348, 392, 394, 412
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The average of twin primes is a member.
LINKS
EXAMPLE
34 is sandwiched between 33 and 35 which are of the form p*q where p and q are primes.
MAPLE
k := 0: for j from 2 to 5000 do if not isprime(j) then a := ifactors(j-1): b := ifactors(j+1): if sort([seq(a[2][i][2], i= 1..nops(a[2]))])= sort([seq(b[2][i][2], i= 1..nops(b[2]))]) then k := k+1: c[k] := j: fi: fi: od: seq(c[i], i= 1..k);
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Aug 21 2002
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Sascha Kurz, Aug 22 2002
Offset corrected by Amiram Eldar, Jan 02 2020
STATUS
approved