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A063908 Numbers n such that n and 2n-3 are primes. 21
3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23, 31, 37, 41, 43, 53, 67, 71, 83, 97, 101, 107, 113, 127, 137, 157, 167, 181, 191, 193, 211, 223, 233, 241, 251, 263, 283, 311, 317, 331, 347, 373, 421, 431, 433, 443, 457, 461, 487, 521, 547, 563, 577, 587, 613, 617, 631 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

If p is in this sequence then the products of positive powers of 3, p and 2p-3 are entries in A086486 - Victoria A Sapko (vsapko(AT)canes.gsw.edu), Sep 23 2003

Median prime of AP3's starting at 3, i.e. triplets of primes (3,p,q) in arithmetic progression. [From M. F. Hasler (www.univ-ag.fr/~mhasler), Sep 24 2009]

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=1,...,1000

C. Rivera, Puzzle 34.- Prime Triplets in arithmetic progression. [From M. F. Hasler (www.univ-ag.fr/~mhasler), Sep 24 2009]

MATHEMATICA

Select[Prime[Range[6! ]], PrimeQ[2*#-3]&] [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Nov 17 2009]

PROG

(PARI) { n=0; p=1; for (m=1, 10^9, p=nextprime(p+1); if (isprime(2*p - 3), write("b063908.txt", n++, " ", p); if (n==1000, break)) ) } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Sep 02 2009]

(PARI) forprime( p=1, default(primelimit), isprime(2*p-3) && print1(p", ")) [From M. F. Hasler (www.univ-ag.fr/~mhasler), Sep 24 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A005382.

Sequence in context: A147545 A083668 A176116 * A154868 A020628 A108816

Adjacent sequences:  A063905 A063906 A063907 * A063909 A063910 A063911

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Aug 31 2001

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