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A003020 Largest prime factor of the "repunit" number 11...1 (cf. A002275)
(Formerly M4790)
12
11, 37, 101, 271, 37, 4649, 137, 333667, 9091, 513239, 9901, 265371653, 909091, 2906161, 5882353, 5363222357, 333667, 1111111111111111111, 27961, 10838689, 513239, 11111111111111111111111, 99990001, 182521213001, 1058313049 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

2,1

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, Introduction \`{a} la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1952, p. 40.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

David Wells, The Factors of the Repunits 11 through R_40, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, p. 219 Penguin 1986.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=2..100 (derived from Yousuke Koide)

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

P. de Geest, Repunits and their Prime Factors

Makoto Kamada, Factorizations of 11...11 (repunit).

Yousuke Koide, Factorizations of Repunit Numbers

A. A. D. Steward, Factorization of Repunits[up to R(196)] [Broken link]

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

MATHEMATICA

Table[Max[Transpose[FactorInteger[10^i - 1]][[1]]], {i, 2, 25}]

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=local(p); if(n<2, n==1, p=factor((10^n-1)/9)~[1, ]; p[length(p)])

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002275, A102380. Same as A005422 except for initial terms. Smallest factor: A067063.

Sequence in context: A090950 A124479 A140373 * A075024 A152094 A160623

Adjacent sequences:  A003017 A003018 A003019 * A003021 A003022 A003023

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Harvey P. Dale (hpd1(AT)nyu.edu), Jan 17 2001

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