OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The first eight terms are primes. Does there exist a number theta such that the floor of theta^n is always prime?
REFERENCES
Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance, Prime Numbers - a Computational Perspective, Springer, 2001, page 69, exercise 1.75.
LINKS
Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..300
EXAMPLE
(1287/545)^3 = 13.16879..., so a(3)=13.
PROG
(PARI) { for (n=1, 300, write("b063636.txt", n, " ", 1287^n \ 545^n); ) } \\ Harry J. Smith, Aug 26 2009
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jud McCranie, Aug 10 2001
STATUS
approved