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A002586 Smallest factor of 2^n + 1.
(Formerly M2385 N0947)
3
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 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

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).

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.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002587.

Sequence in context: A121278 A023587 A172003 * A002587 A066845 A014782

Adjacent sequences:  A002583 A002584 A002585 * A002587 A002588 A002589

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Jul 06 2000

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