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A002586
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Smallest factor of 2^n + 1.
(Formerly M2385 N0947)
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3
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3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 65537, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 97, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 641, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 193, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 257, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 274177, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 97, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5, 3, 65537, 3, 5, 3, 17, 3, 5
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OFFSET
| 1,1
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REFERENCES
| J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1. Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2nd edition, 1985; and later supplements.
M. Kraitchik, Recherches sur la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, Vol. 1, 1924, Vol. 2, 1929, see Vol. 2, p. 85.
E. Lucas, Theorie des fonctions numeriques simplement periodiques, Amer. J. Math., 1 (1878), 184-239, 289-321.
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).
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LINKS
| T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..500 (using data from A001269)
S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project
J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.
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CROSSREFS
| Cf. A002587.
Sequence in context: A121278 A023587 A172003 * A002587 A066845 A014782
Adjacent sequences: A002583 A002584 A002585 * A002587 A002588 A002589
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KEYWORD
| nonn,nice
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AUTHOR
| N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).
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EXTENSIONS
| More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Jul 06 2000
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