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A120937
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Least prime such that the distance to the two adjacent primes is 2n or greater.
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3
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3, 5, 23, 53, 211, 211, 211, 1847, 2179, 2179, 3967, 16033, 16033, 24281, 24281, 24281, 38501, 38501, 38501, 38501, 38501, 58831, 203713, 206699, 206699, 413353, 413353, 413353, 1272749, 1272749, 1272749, 1272749, 2198981, 2198981, 2198981
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OFFSET
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0,1
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COMMENTS
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Erdos and Suranyi call these reclusive primes and prove that such a prime exists for all n. Except for a(0), the record values are in A023186.
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REFERENCES
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Paul Erdős and Janos Suranyi, Topics in the theory of numbers, Springer, 2003.
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EXAMPLE
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a(3)=53 because the adjacent primes 47 and 59 are at distance 6 and all smaller primes have a closer distance.
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MATHEMATICA
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k=2; Table[While[Prime[k]-Prime[k-1]<2n || Prime[k+1]-Prime[k]<2n, k++ ]; Prime[k], {n, 0, 40}]
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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