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Rabin has shown that the proportion has an upper bound of 0.25. If the trivial non-witnesses are counted, this upper bound is reached at 9. If the conjecture is true that the later terms are always the product of two primes p and (2*p-1), then the sequence continues 188191 218791 269011 286903 385003 497503 597871 736291 765703 954271 1056331 1314631 1869211 2741311 3270403 3913003 4255903 4686391 5292631.

M. O. Rabin. Probabilistic algorithms for testing primality. J. Number Theory, 12:128-138, 1980.

Brian C. Higgins, The Rabin-Miller Primality Test: Some Results on the Number of Non-witnesses to Compositeness

25 has 2 nontrivial non-witnesses (NTNW), namely (7,18), for a proportion of 2/22=0.0909. The denominator is 22 because the non-witnesses are selected from 2..23 (as 1 and 24 are trivial non-witnesses).

49 has 4 NTNW, namely (18,19,30,31) for a proportion of 4/46=0.0870. This is a smaller proportion than 0.0909 for 25.

91=7*13 has 16 NTNW in the range [2..89], namely [9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 22, 29, 38, 53, 62, 69, 74, 75, 79, 81, 82], for a proportion of 16/88=0.182. It also has two trivial non-witnesses 1 and 90, which are not counted. The next integer with a higher proportion is 703, with 160 nontrivial non-witnesses and proportion 0.229.

Sequence in context: A087240 A044212 A044593 this_sequence A010013 A063769 A099771

Adjacent sequences: A090656 A090657 A090658 this_sequence A090660 A090661 A090662

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Ken Takusagawa (kenta(AT)cs.stanford.edu), Dec 14 2003