Sphenic number

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A sphenic number (Old Greek sphen = wedge) is a positive integer that is the product of three distinct prime factors. The Möbius function returns Template:Num/neg when passed any sphenic number.

Note that this definition is more stringent than simply requiring the integer to have exactly three prime factors; e.g. 60 = 2² × 3 × 5 has exactly 3 prime factors, but is not sphenic.

All sphenic numbers have exactly eight divisors. If we express the sphenic number as , where p, q, and r are distinct primes, then the set of divisors of n will be:

The first few sphenic numbers are: 30, 42, 66, 70, 78, 102, 105, 110, 114, 130, 138, 154, ...

Currently, the largest known sphenic number is (2^20,996,011 − 1)(2^24,036,583 − 1)(2^25,964,951 − 1).

External links

• Sphenic numbers from On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

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