Search: id:A112548 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A112548 %S A112548 12,16,18,26,34,36,38,42,74,114,118,396,674,1870,4306,22808 %N A112548 Numbers n such that numerator of Bernoulli(n)/n is (apart from sign) prime. %C A112548 In 1911 Ramanujan believed that the numerator of Bernoulli(n)/n for n even was (apart from sign) always either 1 or a prime. This is false. %C A112548 Equivalently, n such that the numerator of zeta(1-n) is prime. No other n<23000. Kellner's Calcbn program was used to generate the numerators of Bernoulli(k)/k for k>5000. Mathematica and PFGW were used to test for probable primes. David Broadhurst found n=4306, which yields a 10342-digit probable prime. For n<4306, the primes have been proved. Bouk de Water proved the prime for n=1870. All these primes are necessarily irregular. %C A112548 The number generated by n=4306 was recented proved prime. See Chris Caldwell's link for more details. [From T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 06 2009] %D A112548 K. Ono, Honoring a gift from Kumbakonam, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 53 (2006), 640-651. %D A112548 S. Ramanujan, Some properties of Bernoulli's numbers, J. Indian Math. Soc., 3 (1911), 219-234. %H A112548 Bernd Kellner, Program Calcbn - A program for calculating Bernoulli numbers %H A112548 Chris Caldwell, Top twenty irregular primes %H A112548 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Irregular Prime %p A112548 A112548 := proc(nmax) local numr; for n from 2 to nmax by 2 do numr := abs(numer(bernoulli(n)/n)) ; if isprime(numr) then print(n) ; fi ; od ; end : A112548(3000) ; - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Jun 21 2006 %t A112548 Select[Range[2, 5000, 2], PrimeQ[Numerator[BernoulliB[ # ]/# ]]&] %Y A112548 Cf. A001067 (numerator of Bernoulli(2n)/(2n)), A033563 (primes in A001067), A092132 (n such that the numerator of Bernoulli(n) is prime), A112741 (primes p such that zeta(1-2p)/zeta(-1) is prime). %Y A112548 Cf. A119766. %Y A112548 Sequence in context: A043544 A097620 A089021 this_sequence A032620 A096468 A054281 %Y A112548 Adjacent sequences: A112545 A112546 A112547 this_sequence A112549 A112550 A112551 %K A112548 hard,nonn %O A112548 1,1 %A A112548 T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 28 2005 Search completed in 0.001 seconds