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A046927 Number of ways to express 2n+1 as p+2q; p, q primes. 7
0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 2, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 4, 7, 5, 3, 7, 3, 3, 7, 7, 5, 7, 4, 4, 8, 7, 5, 8, 4, 7, 8, 7, 4, 11, 5, 6, 9, 6, 5, 12, 6, 6, 10, 8, 6, 11, 7, 5, 11, 8, 6, 10, 6, 6, 13, 8, 5, 13, 6, 9, 12, 8, 6, 14, 8, 6, 11, 10, 9, 16, 5, 8, 13, 9, 9, 14, 7, 6, 14 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,5

COMMENTS

This is related to a conjecture of Lemoine (also sometimes called Levy's conjecture, although Levy was anticipated by Lemoine 69 years earlier). - Zhi-Wei Sun, Jun 10 2008

The conjecture states that any odd number greater than 5 can be written as p+2q where p and q are primes.

REFERENCES

L. E. Dickson, "History of the Theory of Numbers", Vol. I (Amer. Math. Soc., Chelsea Publ., 1999); see p. 424.

E. Lemoine, L'intermediaire des math., 1(1894), 179; 3(1896), 151.

H. Levy, "On Goldbach's Conjecture", Math. Gaz. 47 (1963), 274.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..10000

L. Hodges, A lesser-known Goldbach conjecture, Math. Mag., 66 (1993), 45-47.

V. Shevelev, Binary additive problems: recursions for numbers of representations [From Vladimir Shevelev (shevelev(AT)bgu.ac.il), Jan 22 2009]

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Levy's Conjecture

Index entries for sequences related to Goldbach conjecture

CROSSREFS

Cf. A194831 (records), A194830 (positions of records).

Sequence in context: A061389 A138011 A036555 * A084718 A154851 A037445

Adjacent sequences:  A046924 A046925 A046926 * A046928 A046929 A046930

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments and references from Zhi-Wei Sun (zwsun(AT)nju.edu.cn), Jun 10 2008

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