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A081173 a(1) = 2, then a(n) = greatest prime factor of a(n-1)^2+2. +0
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2, 3, 11, 41, 17, 97, 3137, 13499, 60741001, 14158633, 7424699571433, 18375387908679124623224497, 152868746152697352174823427, 114585848725150699093848122619332057, 2117552824725684501808097956698634897, 34759922213207174486822944687721824905112848905750167403101021576017059, 57191433705834025254780615830990723253902440879104281100230506839641 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

Teske, Edlyn and Williams, Hugh C., A note on Shanks's chains of primes, in Algorithmic number theory (Leiden, 2000), 563-580, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., 1838, Springer, Berlin, 2000.

LINKS

Dennis Langdeau, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20

EXAMPLE

a(2) = 3 because 3 is greatest prime factor of 2^2+2. a(3)=11 because 3^2+2 is prime.

MATHEMATICA

a[1]=2; a[n_] := a[n]=FactorInteger[a[n-1]^2+2][[ -1, 1]]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A083388

Sequence in context: A007756 A000280 A046224 this_sequence A055692 A051075 A051087

Adjacent sequences: A081170 A081171 A081172 this_sequence A081174 A081175 A081176

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Donald S. McDonald (don.mcdonald(AT)paradise.net.nz), Apr 17 2003

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Donald S. McDonald (don.mcdonald(AT)paradise.net.nz), Apr 20 2003, Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com) and Dean Hickerson (dean.hickerson(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 22 2003

More terms from Dennis Langdeau (dlangdea(AT)sfu.ca), Jun 18 2006

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