A sphenic number is a positive integer that is the product of three distinct prime factors. The Möbius function returns -1 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 , then its divisors will be (possibly not sorted):
The first few sphenic numbers are: 30, 42, 66, 70, 78, 102, 105, 110, 114, 130, ...
External links
Sphenic numbers (http://www.research.att.com/projects/OEIS?Anum=A007304) from On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
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