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A040040 Average of twin prime pairs (A014574), divided by 2. Or, 2 a(n) +/- 1 are primes. 31
2, 3, 6, 9, 15, 21, 30, 36, 51, 54, 69, 75, 90, 96, 99, 114, 120, 135, 141, 156, 174, 210, 216, 231, 261, 285, 300, 309, 321, 330, 405, 411, 414, 429, 441, 510, 516, 525, 531, 546, 576, 615, 639, 645, 651, 660, 714, 726, 741, 744, 804, 810, 834, 849, 861, 894 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Intersection of A005097 and A006254. - Zak Seidov (zakseidov(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 18 2005

The only possible pairs for 2a(n)+/-1 are prime/prime (this sequence), not prime/not prime (A104278), prime/notprime (A104279) and not prime/prime (A104280), ... this sequence + A104280 + A104279 + A104278 = the odd numbers.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..10001

FORMULA

a(n) = A014574(n)/2 = A054735(n+1)/4 = A111046(n+1)/8.

MAPLE

P := select(isprime, [$1..1789]): map(p->(p+1)/2, select(p->member(p+2, P), P)); - Peter Luschny, Mar 3 2011

MATHEMATICA

Select[Range[900], And @@ PrimeQ[{-1, 1} + 2# ] &] (*Chandler*)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001359, A006512, A014574, A054735, A111046.

Sequence in context: A190276 A113808 * A168497 A086642 A193197 A014214

Adjacent sequences:  A040037 A040038 A040039 * A040041 A040042 A040043

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Cino Hilliard, Oct 21 2002

Title corrected by Daniel Forgues (squid(AT)zensearch.com), Jun 01 2009

Edited by Daniel Forgues (squid(AT)zensearch.com), Jun 21 2009

Comment corrected by Daniel Forgues (squid(AT)zensearch.com), Jul 12 2009

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