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A023186 Lonely (or isolated) primes: increasing distance to nearest prime. +0
22
2, 5, 23, 53, 211, 1847, 2179, 3967, 16033, 24281, 38501, 58831, 203713, 206699, 413353, 1272749, 2198981, 5102953, 10938023, 12623189, 72546283, 142414669, 162821917, 163710121, 325737821, 1131241763, 1791752797, 3173306951, 4841337887, 6021542119, 6807940367, 7174208683, 8835528511, 11179888193, 15318488291, 26329105043, 31587561361, 45241670743 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

Erdos and Suranyi call these reclusive primes and prove that there are an infinite number of them. They define these primes to be between two primes. Hence their first term would be 3 instead of 2. Record values in A120937. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Jul 21 2006

REFERENCES

Paul Erdos and Janos Suranyi, Topics in the theory of numbers, Springer, 2003.

EXAMPLE

The nearest prime to 23 is 4 units away, larger than any previous prime, so 23 is in the sequence.

MATHEMATICA

NextPrim[n_] := Block[{k = n + 1}, While[ !PrimeQ[k], k++ ]; k]; p = 0; q = 2; i = 0; Do[r = NextPrim[q]; m = Min[r - q, q - p]; If[m > i, Print[q]; i = m]; p = q; q = r, {n, 1, 152382000}]

CROSSREFS

Related sequences: A023186-A023188, A046929-A046931, A051650, A051652, A051697-A051702, A051728-A051730.

The distances are in A023187.

Sequence in context: A100031 A126975 A156314 this_sequence A023188 A106858 A100299

Adjacent sequences: A023183 A023184 A023185 this_sequence A023187 A023188 A023189

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Jud McCranie (j.mccranie(AT)comcast.net), Jun 16 2000

More terms from T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Jul 21 2006

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