Largest prime power divisor

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Definition

Let be a natural number. The largest prime power divisor of , sometimes denoted and sometimes denoted , is defined as the largest prime power that divides .

Behavior

The ID of the sequence in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is A034699

Lower bound

Further information: Largest prime power divisor has logarithmic lower bound

The largest prime power divisor of is greater than . Thus, we have:

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Asymptotic fraction

Further information: Fractional distribution of largest prime power divisor

The value of is almost uniformly distributed in the interval .