A087103 - OEIS

A087103

Smallest jumping champion for prime(n).

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OFFSET

2,3

COMMENTS

A number is called a jumping champion for n, if it is the most frequently occurring difference between consecutive primes <= n;

there are occasionally several jumping champions: see A087102; A087104(n) is the greatest jumping champion for prime(n).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..1001

A. Odlyzko, M. Rubinstein and M. Wolf, Jumping Champions

A. Odlyzko, M. Rubinstein and M. Wolf, Jumping Champions, Experimental Math., 8 (no. 2) (1999).

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Jumping Champion

MATHEMATICA

d=Table[0, {100}]; p=2; Table[q=NextPrime[p]; d[[q-p]]++; p=q; Position[d, Max[d]][[1, 1]], {1000}]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001223, A005250.

Sequence in context: A185715 A111893 A121902 * A287091 A204551 A292563

Adjacent sequences: A087100 A087101 A087102 * A087104 A087105 A087106

KEYWORD

nonn,changed

AUTHOR

Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 10 2003

STATUS

approved