login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A007138 Smallest primitive factor of 10^n -1. Also smallest prime p such that 1/p has repeating decimal expansion of period n.
(Formerly M2888)
14
3, 11, 37, 101, 41, 7, 239, 73, 333667, 9091, 21649, 9901, 53, 909091, 31, 17, 2071723, 19, 1111111111111111111, 3541, 43, 23, 11111111111111111111111, 99990001, 21401, 859, 757, 29, 3191, 211, 2791, 353, 67, 103, 71, 999999000001 (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.

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

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, Decimal Expansion

Index entries for sequences related to decimal expansion of 1/n

EXAMPLE

a(3) = 37 since 1/37 = 0.027027... has period 3.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A046107.

Sequence in context: A069358 A108544 A095088 * A046107 A061075 A005422

Adjacent sequences:  A007135 A007136 A007137 * A007139 A007140 A007141

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Mira Bernstein, Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jud McCranie

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 16 07:39 EST 2012. Contains 205881 sequences.