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A002585 Largest prime factor of 1 + (product of first n primes).
(Formerly M2697 N1081)
9
3, 7, 31, 211, 2311, 509, 277, 27953, 703763, 34231, 200560490131, 676421, 11072701, 78339888213593, 13808181181, 18564761860301, 19026377261, 525956867082542470777, 143581524529603, 2892214489673, 16156160491570418147806951, 96888414202798247, 1004988035964897329167431269 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Based on Euclid's proof that there are infinitely many primes.

REFERENCES

A. Borning, Some results for k!+-1 and 2.3.5...p+-1, Math. Comp., 26 (1972), 567-570.

M. Kraitchik, On the divisibility of factorials, Scripta Math., 14 (1948), 24-26 (but beware errors).

M. Kraitchik, Introduction \`{a} la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1952, p. 2.

S. Kravitz and D. E. Penney, An extension of Trigg's table, Math. Mag., 48 (1975), 92-96.

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

Hisanori Mishima, Factorizations of many number sequences

Hisanori Mishima, Factorizations of many number sequences

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

R. G. Wilson v, Explicit factorizations

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002584, A051342.

Sequence in context: A059296 A123332 A051342 * A103785 A083772 A093441

Adjacent sequences:  A002582 A002583 A002584 * A002586 A002587 A002588

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Labos E. (labos(AT)ana.sote.hu), May 02 2000 and Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Mar 24 2001

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