Search: id:A005266 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A005266 M2247 %S A005266 3,2,5,29,79,68729,3739,6221191,157170297801581,70724343608203457341903, %T A005266 46316297682014731387158877659877,78592684042614093322289223662773,181891012640244955605725966274974474087, %U A005266 5472755803376641653379901401117721648675080387953471985793265336391327043443018314647076482356394487478164834\ 06685904347568344407941 %N A005266 a(1)=3, b(n)=Product_{k=1..n} a(k), a(n+1)=largest prime factor of b(n)-1. %C A005266 Suggested by Euclid's proof that there are infinitely many primes. %C A005266 a(15) requires completing the factorization: 13 * 67 * 14479 * 167197 * 924769 * 2688244927 * 888838110930755119 * 14372541055015356634061816579965403 * C211 where C211=660913330662648363444866649464673779962464061606073030214218754540558253101039029050200\ 115688391702320267155451063346004790145995995932534247513277879149511293756294106652390760328158679687633\ 5607258627832127303 [From Sean A. Irvine (sairvin(AT)xtra.co.nz), Nov 10 2009] %D A005266 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A005266 R. K. Guy and R. Nowakowski, Discovering primes with Euclid, Delta (Waukesha), Vol. 5, pp. 49-63, 1975. %D A005266 S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., Computing Euclid's primes, Bull. Institute Combin. Applications, 8 (1993), 23-32. %Y A005266 Cf. A000945, A000946, A005265. %Y A005266 Essentially the same as A084599. %Y A005266 Sequence in context: A103938 A085973 A005265 this_sequence A005267 A016460 A097887 %Y A005266 Adjacent sequences: A005263 A005264 A005265 this_sequence A005267 A005268 A005269 %K A005266 nonn,nice,new %O A005266 0,1 %A A005266 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). %E A005266 a(14) from Joe K. Crump (joecr(AT)carolina.rr.com), Jul 26, 2000 Search completed in 0.002 seconds