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A260588
Number of prime factors, counted with multiplicity, of A173426(n) = concatenation of (1, 2, ..., n, n-1, ..., 1).
2
0, 2, 4, 4, 4, 10, 4, 8, 8, 1, 2, 5, 3, 6, 7, 4, 5, 8, 6, 2, 6, 3, 4, 9, 2, 6, 11, 2, 4, 10, 4, 9, 8, 6, 6, 12, 3, 6, 8, 4, 6, 7, 3, 6
OFFSET
1,2
FORMULA
a(n) = A001222(A173426(n)).
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 2 since A173426(2) = 121 = 11*11 has twice the factor 11.
a(21) = 6 since A173426(21) = 3 * 3 * 7 * 828703 * 94364768151913037621 * 250591098443370396365457961250972909.
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=bigomega(A173426(n))
CROSSREFS
See A260587 for the variant where only distinct prime factors are counted.
See also A075023 and A075024 for the smallest and largest prime factor of the terms.
Cf. A001222.
Sequence in context: A299768 A021413 A082855 * A107058 A332336 A101449
KEYWORD
nonn,base,hard,more
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Jul 29 2015
EXTENSIONS
Terms beyond a(30) via factorization results by Serge Batalov, added by M. F. Hasler, Jul 30 2015
a(38)-a(44) added using factordb.com by Jinyuan Wang, Mar 05 2020
STATUS
approved