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A004064 Numbers n such that (12^n - 1)/11 is prime.
(Formerly M0744)
15
2, 3, 5, 19, 97, 109, 317, 353, 701, 9739, 14951, 37573, 46889 (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.

J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 109, p. 38, Ellipses, Paris 2008.

H. Dubner, Generalized repunit primes, Math. Comp., 61 (1993), 927-930.

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

LINKS

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

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

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

H. Lifchitz, Mersenne and Fermat primes field

MATHEMATICA

lst={}; Do[If[PrimeQ[(12^n-1)/11], Print[n]; AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 10^5}]; lst [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Aug 21 2008]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A118625 A031133 A028490 * A164061 A128363 A106047

Adjacent sequences:  A004061 A004062 A004063 * A004065 A004066 A004067

KEYWORD

nonn,hard

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

a(11) from Paul Bourdelais (paul.bourdelais(AT)gd-ais.com), Aug 03 2007

One more term from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 05 2008

a(13)=46889 discovered Sep 10 2008 by Paul Bourdelais - is a probable prime based on trial factoring to 1e13 and Fermat base 2 primality test. Paul Bourdelais (paul.bourdelais(AT)gd-ais.com), Sep 11 2008

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