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A098438 Numbers n such that (30^n-1)/29 is prime. +0
13
2, 5, 11, 163, 569, 1789, 8447 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

Next term after 8447 is greater than 10000. - Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Jun 25 2005

REFERENCES

H. Dubner, Generalized repunit primes, Math. Comp., 61 (1993), 927-930.

LINKS

H. Lifchitz, Mersenne and Fermat primes field

MATHEMATICA

Do[If[PrimeQ[(30^n - 1)/29], Print[n]], {n, 1, 10000}] (Propper)

Select[Prime[Range[100]], PrimeQ[(30^#-1)/29]&] - Alexander Adamchuk (alex(AT)kolmogorov.com), Feb 11 2007

PROGRAM

(MAGMA) for i in [1..500] do if i mod 50 eq 0 then print "counter equals", counter; end if; if IsPrime(i) then n := 0; for j in [0..i-1] do n +:= 30^j; end for; if IsPrime(n) then print n; print i; end if; end if; end for;

CROSSREFS

Cf. A028491, A004061, A004062, A004063, A004023, A005808, A004064, A016054, A006032, A006033, A006034, A006035.

Cf. A127995, A127996, A127997, A127998, A127999, A128000, A128002, A128003, A128004, A128005.

Searching in the OEIS for 'repunit' gives many similar sequences.

Sequence in context: A158999 A069506 A123165 this_sequence A064772 A107989 A069504

Adjacent sequences: A098435 A098436 A098437 this_sequence A098439 A098440 A098441

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,more

AUTHOR

Tim Honeywill, Jon Ingram and Paul Boddington (tch(AT)maths.warwick.ac.uk), Oct 26 2004

EXTENSIONS

a(7) - a(10), corresponding to probable primes, from Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Jun 25 2005

a(10) = 8447 was found by Richard Fischer in 2004. - Alexander Adamchuk (alex(AT)kolmogorov.com), Feb 11 2007

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com) Jan 25 2008 at the suggestion of Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm)

Edited by T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Oct 30 2008

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