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A001494 Numbers n such that phi(n) = phi(n+2).
(Formerly M3293 N1328)
8
4, 7, 8, 10, 26, 32, 70, 74, 122, 146, 308, 314, 386, 512, 554, 572, 626, 635, 728, 794, 842, 910, 914, 1015, 1082, 1226, 1322, 1330, 1346, 1466, 1514, 1608, 1754, 1994, 2132, 2170, 2186, 2306, 2402, 2426, 2474, 2590, 2642, 2695, 2762, 2906, 3242, 3314 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

If p and 2p-1 are odd primes then 2(2p-1) is a solution of the equation. Other terms (7,8,32,70,...) are not of this form.

There are approximately 506764125 terms under 10^12. - Jud McCranie. Feb 13 2012

REFERENCES

D. M. Burton, Elementry Number Theory, section 7-2.

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems Number Theory, Sect. B36.

V. L. Klee, Jr., Some remarks on Euler's totient function, Amer. Math. Monthly, 54 (1947), 332.

L. Moser, Some equations involving Euler's totient function, Amer. Math. Monthly, 56 (1949), 22-23.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe and Jud McCranie, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (T. D. Noe supplied 1000 terms)

M. F. Hasler, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..17286. (Terms up to 10^7.)

MATHEMATICA

Select[Range[3500], EulerPhi[#]==EulerPhi[#+2]&] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Apr 24 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) op=[0, c=0]; for( n=1, 1e7, if( op[bittest(n, 0)+1]+0==op[bittest(n, 0)+1]=eulerphi(n), write("../OEIS/b001494.txt", c++, " "n-2))) \\ - M. F. Hasler, Jan 05 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000010, A001274.

Sequence in context: A175008 A084791 A186712 * A092214 A128373 A080578

Adjacent sequences:  A001491 A001492 A001493 * A001495 A001496 A001497

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,changed

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Jud McCranie (JudMcCranie(AT)ugaalum.uga.edu), Dec 24 1999

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