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!)
A125567 Numbers k such that Sum_{x=2..k} (x-1)*3^(x-2) = ((2*k-3)*3^(k-1)+1)/4 is prime. 0

%I #15 Sep 23 2018 22:05:14

%S 3,6,10,135,186,542,1162,1726,4179,13910,14514,78915,170026

%N Numbers k such that Sum_{x=2..k} (x-1)*3^(x-2) = ((2*k-3)*3^(k-1)+1)/4 is prime.

%C a(14) > 2*10^5. - _Robert Price_, Jan 25 2015

%e For k = 3, 6, 10 the corresponding primes are 7, 547, 83653.

%t s = 0; Do[s += (x-1)*3^(x-2); If[PrimeQ[s], Print[x]], {x, 10^4}]

%Y Cf. A119529.

%K hard,more,nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Ryan Propper_, Jan 01 2007

%E a(10) from _Max Alekseyev_, Dec 10 2011

%E a(11)-a(13) from _Robert Price_, Jan 25 2015

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 May 16 20:35 EDT 2024. Contains 372555 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)