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A061712 Smallest prime with Hamming weight n (i.e. with exactly n 1's when written in binary). 17
2, 3, 7, 23, 31, 311, 127, 383, 991, 2039, 3583, 6143, 8191, 73727, 63487, 129023, 131071, 522239, 524287, 1966079, 4128767, 16250879, 14680063, 33546239, 67108351, 201064447, 260046847, 536739839, 1073479679, 5335154687, 2147483647 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

a(n) = 2^n - 1 for n in A000043, so Mersenne primes A000668 is a subsequence of this one. Binary length of a(n) is given by A110699 and the number of zeros in a(n) is given by A110700. - Max Alekseyev (maxale(AT)gmail.com), Aug 03 2005

Drmota, Mauduit, & Rivat prove that a(n) exists for n > N. [From Charles R Greathouse IV (charles.greathouse(AT)case.edu), May 11 2010; corrected May 17 2010]

LINKS

Charles R Greathouse IV, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..3320

Michael Drmota, Christian Mauduit, and Joel Rivat, Primes with an average sum of digits, Compositio Mathematica 145 (2009), pp. 271-292. [From Charles R Greathouse IV (charles.greathouse(AT)case.edu), May 11 2010]

MathOverflow, Are there primes of every Hamming weight? [From T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), May 14 2010]

Samuel S. Wagstaff, Prime numbers with a fixed number of one bits or zero bits in their binary representation, Experimental Mathematics 10 (2001), pp. 267-273. [From Charles R Greathouse IV (charles.greathouse(AT)case.edu), May 11 2010]

FORMULA

Conjecture: a(n) < 2^(n+3). - T. D. Noe, Mar 14 2008

EXAMPLE

The fourth term is 23 (10111 in binary), since no prime less than 23 has exactly 4 1's in its binary representation.

MAPLE

with(combstruct); a:=proc(n) local m, is, s, t, r; if n=1 then return 2 fi; r:=+infinity; for m from 0 to 100 do is := iterstructs(Combination(n-2+m), size=n-2); while not finished(is) do s := nextstruct(is); t := 2^(n-1+m)+1+add(2^i, i=s); # print(s, t); if isprime(t) then r:=min(t, r) fi; od; if r<+infinity then return r fi; od; return 0; end; seq(a(n), n=1..60); [Alekseyev]

MATHEMATICA

Do[k = 1; While[ Count[ IntegerDigits[ Prime[k], 2], 1] != n, k++ ]; Print[ Prime[k]], {n, 1, 30} ]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001348.

Cf. A000043, A000668, A110699, A110700.

Sequence in context: A093363 A127581 A118883 * A059661 A072686 A002230

Adjacent sequences:  A061709 A061710 A061711 * A061713 A061714 A061715

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Alex Healy (ahealy(AT)post.harvard.edu), Jun 19 2001

EXTENSIONS

Extended to 60 terms by Max Alekseyev (maxale(AT)gmail.com), Aug 03 2005

Further terms from T. D. Noe, Mar 14 2008

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