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Maple worksheet available upon request. Here is the minimal set in base 12 where X is 10 and E is 11. 2, 3, 5, 7, E, 11, 61, 81, 91, 401, X41, 4441, X0X1, XXXX1, 44XXX1, XXX0001, XX000001. This minimal set demonstrates the elegance of base 12 generally since you can mentally follow the process of elimination, all primes after E end in the neutral digit 1 and the last two entries only contain X, 0 and 1. There are no primes of the form X0...01 since the sum of its digits is E and hence it is divisible by E.

a(10)=401 since no earlier prime in the list contained the pattern "*4*0*1*" where "*" stands for zero or more digits. The list can be manually constructed using a sieve-like process: eliminate all subsequent primes of the form "*4*0*1*" from the list of all primes. Assuming all previous elements have also been similarly determined, the next remaining prime should be X41.

Cf. A071062, A071070.

Sequence in context: A140464 A037174 A037949 this_sequence A029979 A029981 A029982

Adjacent sequences: A110597 A110598 A110599 this_sequence A110601 A110602 A110603

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Walter A. Kehowski (wkehowski(AT)cox.net), Sep 14 2005