A040016 Largest prime < e^n.

2, 7, 19, 53, 139, 401, 1093, 2971, 8101, 22013, 59863, 162751, 442399, 1202603, 3269011, 8886109, 24154939, 65659969, 178482289, 485165141, 1318815713, 3584912833, 9744803443, 26489122081, 72004899319, 195729609407, 532048240573, 1446257064289, 3931334297131

Offset

1,1

Comments

A050809 is a subset. Lim_{n --> infinity} a(n+1)/a(n) = e. - Jonathan Vos Post, May 02 2006

Links

Giovanni Resta, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, e-Prime.

Example

a(20) = floor(e^20) - 54 = 485165195 - 54 = 485165141 as there are no primes p such that 485165141 < p < 485165195.

Mathematica

Table[NextPrime[E^n, -1], {n, 30}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 24 2016 *)

Prog

(PARI) a(n)=precprime(exp(n)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 26 2013

Crossrefs

Cf. A000040, A000149, A007512, A014210, A050808, A050809, A059303, A064118, A095935, A115019, A074496, A118840.

Sequence in context: A018030 A051354 A073799 * A145519 A030224 A114624

Adjacent sequences: A040013 A040014 A040015 * A040017 A040018 A040019

Keyword

nonn

Author

Jud McCranie

Extensions

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 22 2006

a(27)-a(29) from Giovanni Resta, Apr 29 2017

Status

approved