The OEIS mourns the passing of Jim Simons and is grateful to the Simons Foundation for its support of research in many branches of science, including the OEIS.
login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A067760 a(n) is the least positive k such that (2n+1) + 2^k is prime, or 0 if no such k exists. 17

%I #51 Jul 13 2023 01:16:48

%S 1,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,3,2,1,1,4,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,5,2,1,3,2,1,1,8,2,1,2,

%T 1,1,4,2,1,2,1,7,2,1,3,4,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,7,4,5,3,4,2,1,2,1,3,2,1,

%U 1,10,3,3,2,1,1,4,2,1,4,2,1,2,1,5,2,1,3,2,1,1,4,3,3,2,1,1,2,1,1,6,5,3,6

%N a(n) is the least positive k such that (2n+1) + 2^k is prime, or 0 if no such k exists.

%C From Phil Moore (moorep(AT)lanecc.edu), Dec 14 2009: (Start)

%C It is known that a(39278) = 0, since no such prime exists for the SierpiƄski number 78557 (cf. A076336).

%C It has recently been discovered that 2131+2^4583176 and 41693+2^5146295 are probable primes, so a(1065) is probably 4583176 and a(20846) is probably 5146295.

%C At present, the only odd value less than 78557 for which no prime or strong probable prime of the form t+2^k is known is t = 40291, so a(20145) is completely unknown. In addition, for 25 values of t < 78557, only strong probable primes are known. (End)

%C The last case was resolved in 2011 when the probable prime 40291+2^9092392 was found as a part of a distributed project "Five or Bust". See links. - _Jeppe Stig Nielsen_, Mar 29 2019

%H Jinyuan Wang, <a href="/A067760/b067760.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..39278</a> (terms 0..1064 from T. D. Noe, terms 1065..3000 from Richard N. Smith).

%H Mersenne Forum, <a href="https://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=86">Five or Bust</a>

%H Carlos Rivera, <a href="http://www.primepuzzles.net/puzzles/puzz_167.htm">Puzzle 167. Primes m + 2^j & m - 2^j</a>, The Prime Puzzles and Problems Connection.

%e a(15)=4 because (2*15+1)+2^k is composite for k=1,2,3 and prime for k=4.

%o (PARI) a(n) = {my(k=1); while (! isprime((2*n+1)+2^k), k++); k;} \\ _Michel Marcus_, Feb 26 2018

%Y Cf. A016014, A050412, A066081, A033919, A094076, A076336, A260350, A263874, A263875 (records).

%K nonn

%O 0,4

%A _Don Reble_, Feb 05 2002

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified June 8 13:51 EDT 2024. Contains 373217 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)