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Product of a prime and the previous number

A036689 on the OEIS · family primes

Weight–level plate of Product of a prime and the previous number
Click the plate to explore it in 3-D. Weight k across, level L up, both on log scales: blue in the weight class (k ≤ L), orange in the level class (k > L). The dashed diagonal is k = L.
Open in the 3-D viewerA036689 on the OEIS
Terms100,000 (n = 1 … 100,000)
Decomposable (a > 2d)99,994
Level class, k > L99,994 · 100.00 %
Weight class, k ≤ L0 · 0.00 %
Ties, k = L0
On the level line L = 13
Forced level, l ≤ d²99,994
Range of a(n)2 … 1,689,242,184,972
Range of the jump d4 … 238,596,576
Largest weight k, level L844,327,383,839, 322,883

99,993 different gaps occur, from 4 to 238,596,576; every decomposable term is forced level (l <= d^2); 6 terms do not decompose.

The decomposition

Every term of a strictly increasing sequence is written a(n) = k(n)·L(n) + d(n): the jump d = a(n+1) − a(n), the weight k the least divisor of a − d greater than d, the level L = (a − d)/k. A term decomposes when a > 2d; it is in the level class when k > L and in the weight class when k ≤ L. See decompwlj.com and arXiv:0711.0865, or how it works, with worked examples and a live one.