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<a href="/index/Eu#epf">Index entries for sequences computed from exponents in factorization of n</a>
Antti Karttunen, <a href="/A304455/b304455.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000</a>
Antti Karttunen, <a href="/A304455/a304455.txt">Data supplement: n, a(n) computed for n = 1..100000</a>
a(prime(n > 1)) = 0.
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 3, 0, 3, 2, 2, 0, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 3, 0, 2, 0, 3, 3, 2, 0, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 0, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 0, 3, 2, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 0, 3, 1, 2, 0, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 0, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 0, 3, 3, 2, 0, 2, 0, 3, 2
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A181819(n) = factorback(apply(e->prime(e), (factor(n)[, 2])));
A304455(n) = if(n<=2, 0, n=A181819(n); if(2==n, 0, 1+A304455(n))); \\ Antti Karttunen, Dec 06 2018
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The a(2520) = 5 steps are {1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,45,7} -> {1,1,2,3} -> {1,1,2} -> {1,2} -> {1,1} -> {2}.
Table[Length[Select[FixedPointList[Sort[Length/@Split[#]]&, If[n===1, {}, Flatten[Cases[FactorInteger[n], {p_, k_}:>Table[PrimePi[p], , {k}]]]]], Length[#]>1&]], {n, 100}]