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A007516 (2^2^...^2) (n times) + 1.
(Formerly M2504)
+0
4
1, 3, 5, 17, 65537 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

a(0) could equally well be taken to be 2 rather than 1, which gives A004249. - N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 14 2009

The next term already has 19729 digits and is too large to include. - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 14 2006

REFERENCES

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

P. Ribenboim, The Book of Prime Number Records. Springer-Verlag, NY, 2nd ed., 1989, p. 73.

FORMULA

a(1) = 1, a(2) = 3, a(n+1) = 2^(a(n)-1)+1 - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 14 2006

MATHEMATICA

a[1] := 1; a[2] := 3; a[n_] := 2^(a[n - 1] - 1) + 1; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 5}] - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 14 2006

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004249 (another version).

Sequence in context: A016045 A128336 A094487 this_sequence A039584 A136131 A143546

Adjacent sequences: A007513 A007514 A007515 this_sequence A007517 A007518 A007519

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com) and Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com)

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