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A002586 Smallest factor of 2^n + 1.
(Formerly M2385 N0947)
+0
3
3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 65537, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 97, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 641, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 193, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 274177, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 97, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 65537, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

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).

J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1. Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2nd edition, 1985; and later supplements.

M. Kraitchik, Recherches sur la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, Vol. 1, 1924, Vol. 2, 1929, see Vol. 2, p. 85.

E. Lucas, Theorie des fonctions numeriques simplement periodiques, Amer. J. Math., 1 (1878), 184-239, 289-321.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..500 (using data from A001269)

S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project

J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002587.

Sequence in context: A023583 A121278 A023587 this_sequence A002587 A066845 A014782

Adjacent sequences: A002583 A002584 A002585 this_sequence A002587 A002588 A002589

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Jul 06 2000

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