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A002587 Largest prime factor of 2^n + 1.
(Formerly M2386 N0948)
5
3, 5, 3, 17, 11, 13, 43, 257, 19, 41, 683, 241, 2731, 113, 331, 65537, 43691, 109, 174763, 61681, 5419, 2113, 2796203, 673, 4051, 1613, 87211, 15790321, 3033169, 1321, 715827883, 6700417, 20857, 26317, 86171, 38737, 25781083, 525313 (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)

J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.

D. X. Charles, The abc-Conjecture And The Largest Prime Factor Of 2^n + 1

S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002586.

Sequence in context: A023587 A172003 A002586 * A066845 A014782 A094466

Adjacent sequences:  A002584 A002585 A002586 * A002588 A002589 A002590

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

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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