PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES-MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, cilt.127, sa.3, ss.423-430, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
For lack of a better word, a number is called special if it has mutually distinct exponents in its canonical prime factorizaton for all exponents. Let V(x) be the number of special numbers <= x. We will prove that there is a constant c > 1 such that V(x) similar to cx/log x. We will make some remarks on determining the error term at the end. Using the explicit abc conjecture, we will study the existence of 23 consecutive special integers.