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A073924 Smallest power of 2 that is greater than the previous term such that every partial sum (n>1) is a prime. +0
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1, 2, 4, 16, 128, 65536, 9007199254740992, 73786976294838206464, 205688069665150755269371147819668813122841983204197482918576128 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Next term is too large to include.

EXAMPLE

a(5) is 128 because it is the next power of 2 greater than 16 such that 1+2+4+16+x is prime.

MATHEMATICA

a[1] = 1; a[n_] := Block[{k = a[n - 1] + 1, s = Plus @@ (2^Array[a, n - 1])}, While[ !PrimeQ[s + 2^k], k++ ]; k]; Array[2^a[ # ] &, 9] (from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(at)rgwv.com), Jan 31 2006)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A073923.

Sequence in context: A047892 A009200 A144526 this_sequence A061588 A050472 A109457

Adjacent sequences: A073921 A073922 A073923 this_sequence A073925 A073926 A073927

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Amarnath Murthy (amarnath_murthy(AT)yahoo.com), Aug 19 2002

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Jason Earls (zevi_35711(AT)yahoo.com), Sep 03 2002

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