Logo

Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!

Hints

Search: id:A153440
Displaying 1-1 of 1 results found. page 1
     Format: long | short | internal | text      Sort: relevance | references | number      Highlight: on | off
A153440 Numbers k such that k^9*(k^9+1)+1 is prime +0
1
1, 2, 11, 44, 45, 56, 62, 63, 110, 170, 219, 234, 245, 261, 263, 333, 395, 398, 402, 413, 428, 434, 437, 498, 557, 558, 578, 633, 692, 695, 723, 731, 750, 761, 774, 794, 797, 804, 806, 846, 854, 855, 863, 906, 923, 926, 977, 1046, 1085, 1086 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Numbers of the form k^n*(k^n+1)+1 with n > 0, k > 1 may be primes only if n has the form 3^j When n is even k^(4*n)+k^(2*n)+1=(k^(2*n)+1)^2-(k^n)^2=(k^(2*n)+k^n+1)*(k^(2*n)-k^n+1) so composite But why if n odd > 3 and not a power of 3 k^n*(k^n+1)+1 is alway composite ??

LINKS

Pierre CAMI, Table of n, a(n) for n=1,...,38019

CROSSREFS

A153438

Sequence in context: A050620 A027253 A066058 this_sequence A037744 A037625 A110679

Adjacent sequences: A153437 A153438 A153439 this_sequence A153441 A153442 A153443

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Pierre CAMI (pierre-cami(AT)orange.fr), Dec 26 2008

page 1

Search completed in 0.002 seconds

Lookup | Welcome | Find friends | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by N. J. A. Sloane (njas@research.att.com)

Last modified December 8 08:31 EST 2009. Contains 170430 sequences.


AT&T Labs Research