A -rough number is a positive
integer all of whose prime factors are greater
than or equal to
(Finch 2001).
Greene and Knuth (1990) define "unusual numbers" as positive integers
whose greatest prime factor is greater than
or equal to
.
This condition differs from being
-rough, which for
requires
to be a prime number or
for a prime
number
.
For example, 6 is unusual but is not
-rough. The first few unusual numbers are 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, ... (OEIS A063538), which
turn out to not be so unusual after all (Greene and Knuth 1990, Finch 2001). Including
1 by convention, the first few "usual" numbers are 1, 8, 12, 16, 18, 24,
27, 30, ... (OEIS A063539).
Finch (2003, p. 166) calls jagged when its greatest
prime factor is strictly greater than
. These numbers differ from unusual numbers by excluding
numbers
with
prime.
For an integer sampled uniformly from 1, 2, ..., , the probability of obtaining
whose greatest prime
factor exceeds
tends to
as
(Schroeppel 1972).