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A002646 Half-quartan primes: primes of the form p = (x^4 + y^4)/2.
(Formerly M5276 N2294)
2
41, 313, 353, 1201, 3593, 4481, 7321, 8521, 10601, 14281, 14321, 14593, 21601, 26513, 32633, 41761, 41801, 42073, 42961, 49081, 56041, 66361, 67073, 72481, 90473, 97241, 97553, 104561, 106921, 111521, 139921, 141121, 165233, 195353, 198593 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

The 1001-digit number ((10^250+5659)^4+(10^250+5661)^4)/2, is currently the largest known half-quartan prime. - Paul Muljadi, March 3, 2011

The largest known is now ((2*3960926^2048+1)^4+1^4)/2 with 54051 digits. - Jens Kruse Andersen, March 20, 2011

REFERENCES

A. J. C. Cunningham, High quartan factorisations and primes, Messenger of Mathematics, 36, 11 (1907), pp. 145-174.

A. J. C. Cunningham, Binomial Factorisations, Vols. 1-9, Hodgson, London, 1923-1929; see Vol. 1, pp. 245-259.

J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 41, p. 16, Ellipses, Paris 2008.

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..10000

MAPLE

for m from 1 to 15 do for n from 1 to m do a := ((2*m-1)^4+(2*n-1)^4)/2: if isprime(a) then print(m, n, a) fi od od;

MATHEMATICA

nmax = 200000; jmax = Floor[(nmax/8)^(1/4)]; s = {}; Do[n = ((2 j + 1)^4 + (2 k + 1)^4)/2; If[n <= nmax && PrimeQ[n], AppendTo[s, n]], {j, 0, jmax}, {k, j,  jmax}]; Union[s] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 23 2011 *)

Sort[Select[Total/@(Union[Sort/@Tuples[Range[0, 50], 2]]^4)/2, PrimeQ]] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Feb 12 2012 *)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A090833 A154577 A201043 * A175110 A096170 A121671

Adjacent sequences:  A002643 A002644 A002645 * A002647 A002648 A002649

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,changed

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Len Smiley (smiley(AT)math.uaa.alaska.edu)

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