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A037274
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Home primes: for n >= 2, a(n) = the prime that is finally reached when you start with n, concatenate its prime factors (A037276) and repeat until a prime is reached (a(n) = -1 if no prime is ever reached).
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51
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1, 2, 3, 211, 5, 23, 7, 3331113965338635107, 311, 773, 11, 223, 13, 13367, 1129, 31636373, 17, 233, 19, 3318308475676071413, 37, 211, 23, 331319, 773, 3251, 13367, 227, 29, 547, 31, 241271, 311, 31397, 1129, 71129, 37, 373, 313, 3314192745739, 41, 379, 43, 22815088913, 3411949, 223, 47, 6161791591356884791277
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OFFSET
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1,2
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COMMENTS
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The initial 1 could have been omitted.
Probabilistic arguments give exactly zero for the chance that the sequence of integers starting at n contains no prime, the expected number of primes being given by a divergent sequence. - J. H. Conway
After 103 iterations, a(49) is still composite with 217 digits.
More terms:
a(50) to a(60) are 3517, 317, 2213, 53, 2333, 773, 37463, 1129, 229, 59, 35149;
a(61) to a(65) are 61, 31237, 337, 1272505013723, 1381321118321175157763339900357651;
a(66) to a(76) are 2311, 67, 3739, 33191, 257, 71, 1119179, 73, 379, 571, 333271.
This is different from A195264. Here 8 = 2^3 -> 222 -> ... -> 3331113965338635107 (a prime), whereas in A195264 8 = 2^3 -> 23 (a prime). - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 12 2014
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REFERENCES
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Jeffrey Heleen, Family Numbers: Mathemagical Black Holes, Recreational and Educational Computing, 5:5, pp. 6, 1990.
Jeffrey Heleen, Family numbers: Constructing Primes by Prime Factor Splicing, J. Recreational Math., Vol. 28 #2, 1996-97, pp. 116-119.
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LINKS
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Table of n, a(n) for n=1..48.
Christian N. K. Anderson, Table of known values of n, # of steps to reach a(n), and a(n) or NA if a(n) has 30 digits or more. Also, the trajectory, with factors separated by a |, terminated by either "(end)" or "-> ?" if a(n) has 30 digits or more.
P. De Geest, Home Primes < 100 and Beyond
M. Herman and J. Schiffman, Investigating home primes and their families, Math. Teacher, 107 (No. 8, 2014), 606-614.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Home Prime.
Wikipedia, Home prime
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EXAMPLE
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9 = 3*3 -> 33 = 3*11 -> 311, prime, so a(9) = 311.
The trajectory of 8 is more interesting:
8 ->
2 * 2 * 2 ->
2 * 3 * 37 ->
3 * 19 * 41 ->
3 * 3 * 3 * 7 * 13 * 13 ->
3 * 11123771 ->
7 * 149 * 317 * 941 ->
229 * 31219729 ->
11 * 2084656339 ->
3 * 347 * 911 * 118189 ->
11 * 613 * 496501723 ->
97 * 130517 * 917327 ->
53 * 1832651281459 ->
3 * 3 * 3 * 11 * 139 * 653 * 3863 * 5107
and 3331113965338635107 is prime, so a(8) = 3331113965338635107.
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MATHEMATICA
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f[n_] := FromDigits@ Flatten[ IntegerDigits@ Table[ #[[1]], { #[[2]] }] & /@ FactorInteger@n, 2]; g[n_] := NestWhile[ f@# &, n, !PrimeQ@# &]; g[1] = 1; Array[g, 41] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Sep 22 2007 *)
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A006919, A037271, A037272, A037273, A037275, A037276, A037919-A037941, A048986, A056938.
Cf. A195264 (use exponents instead of repeating primes).
Cf. A084318 (use only one copy of each prime), A248713 (Fermi-Dirac analog: use unique representation of n>1 as a product of distinct terms of A050376).
Cf. also A120716 and related sequences.
Sequence in context: A160759 A191835 A195264 * A037275 A142960 A117324
Adjacent sequences: A037271 A037272 A037273 * A037275 A037276 A037277
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KEYWORD
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nonn,nice,base
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AUTHOR
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N. J. A. Sloane, Jeff Burch
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EXTENSIONS
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Corrected and extended by Karl W. Heuer, Sep 30 2003
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STATUS
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approved
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