Definition:Highly Composite Number/Sequence
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Definition
The sequence of highly composite numbers begins:
- $1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 120, 180, 240, 360, 720, 840, 1260, 1680, 2520, 5040, \ldots$
This sequence is A002182 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane (Ed.), 2008).
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $60$
- Dec. 1991: Steven Ratering: An Interesting Subset of the Highly Composite Numbers (Math. Mag. Vol. 64, no. 5: pp. 343 – 346) www.jstor.org/stable/2690653
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $60$