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A002235 Numbers n such that 3*2^n - 1 is prime.
(Formerly M0545 N0195)
18
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 18, 34, 38, 43, 55, 64, 76, 94, 103, 143, 206, 216, 306, 324, 391, 458, 470, 827, 1274, 3276, 4204, 5134, 7559, 12676, 14898, 18123, 18819, 25690, 26459, 41628, 51387, 71783, 80330, 85687, 88171, 97063, 123630, 155930, 164987, 234760, 414840, 584995, 702038, 727699, 992700, 1201046, 1232255, 2312734, 3136255 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

H. Riesel, Lucasian criteria for the primality of N=h.2^n-1, Math. Comp., 23 (1969), 869-875.

H. Riesel, ``Prime numbers and computer methods for factorization,'' Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 57, Birkhauser, Boston, 1985, Chap. 4, see pp. 381-384.

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

Wilfrid Keller, List of primes k.2^n - 1 for k < 300

C. K. Caldwell, The Prime Pages

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Index entries for sequences of n such that k*2^n-1 (or k*2^n+1) is prime

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Thabit ibn Kurrah Number

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Integer Sequence Primes

Mersenne Forum, 321 Search

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Integer Sequence Primes

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Thabit ibn Kurrah Number

MATHEMATICA

lst={}; Do[If[PrimeQ[3*2^n-1], Print[n]; AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 10^5}]; lst [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Aug 21 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000043, A007505, A003307, A046865, A079906, A046866, A001771, A005541, A056725, A046867, A079907.

Sequence in context: A130690 A074885 A091336 * A030705 A057128 A018534

Adjacent sequences:  A002232 A002233 A002234 * A002236 A002237 A002238

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com), Sep 29 2007

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