A299375 Numbers k such that k * 12^k - 1 is prime.

1, 6, 43, 175, 821, 910, 1157, 13748, 27032, 71761, 229918

Offset

1,2

Comments

a(12) > 500000.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..11.

Steven Harvey, Generalized Woodall Search

Wikipedia, Woodall number

Mathematica

Select[Range[1, 10000], PrimeQ[n*12^n-1] &]

Prog

(PARI) for(n=1, 10000, if(isprime(n*12^n-1)), print1(n, ", ")))
(Magma) [n: n in [1..10000] |IsPrime(n*12^n-1)]

Crossrefs

Numbers n such that n * b^n - 1 is prime: A008864 (b=1), A002234 (b=2), A006553 (b=3), A086661 (b=4), A059676 (b=5), A059675 (b=6), A242200 (b=7), A242201 (b=8), A242202 (b=9), A059671 (b=10), A299374 (b=11), this sequence (b=12), A299376 (b=13), A299377 (b=14), A299378 (b=15), A299379 (b=16), A299380 (b=17), A299381 (b=18), A299382 (b=19), A299383 (b=20).

Sequence in context: A179861 A083940 A101071 * A097298 A012872 A156676

Adjacent sequences: A299372 A299373 A299374 * A299376 A299377 A299378

Keyword

nonn,more,hard

Author

Tim Johannes Ohrtmann, Feb 08 2018

Status

approved