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Cox and van der Poorten claim to show that 5, 11, 13, 17, ... are not members of this sequence. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 02 2007

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

C. D. Cox and A. J. van der Poorten, "On a sequence of prime numbers", Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society 8 (1968), pp. 571-574. [Note that the argument used here is incorrect, as pointed out by Naur.]

R. K. Guy and R. Nowakowski, Discovering primes with Euclid, Delta (Waukesha), Vol. 5, pp. 49-63, 1975.

T. Naur, Mullin's sequence of primes is not monotonic, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 90 (1984), 43-44.

S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., Computing Euclid's primes, Bull. Institute Combin. Applications, 8 (1993), 23-32.

Cf. A000945, A005265, A005266.

Adjacent sequences: A000943 A000944 A000945 this_sequence A000947 A000948 A000949

Sequence in context: A106864 A085682 A083369 this_sequence A091771 A072714 A051786

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N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).