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A064080 Zsigmondy numbers for a = 4, b = 1: Zs(n, 4, 1) is the greatest divisor of 4^n - 1^n (A024036) that is relatively prime to 4^m - 1^m for all positive integers m < n. 5
3, 5, 7, 17, 341, 13, 5461, 257, 1387, 41, 1398101, 241, 22369621, 3277, 49981, 65537, 5726623061, 4033, 91625968981, 61681, 1826203, 838861, 23456248059221, 65281, 1100586419201, 13421773, 22906579627, 15790321, 96076792050570581 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

By Zsigmondy's theorem, the n-th Zsigmondy number for bases a and b is not 1 except in the three cases (1) a = 2, b = 1, n = 1, (2) a = 2, b = 1, n = 6, (3) n = 2 and a+b is a power of 2.

REFERENCES

K. Zsigmondy, Zur Theorie der Potenzreste, Monatshefte fuer Mathematik und Physik 3 (1882), 265 - 284

LINKS

K. Zsigmondy, Zur Theorie der Potenzreste, Monatsh. f. Math. 3 (1892) 265-284.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A024036, A064078, A064079, A064081, A064082, A064083.

Sequence in context: A038893 A191064 A075227 * A184875 A112986 A052333

Adjacent sequences:  A064077 A064078 A064079 * A064081 A064082 A064083

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Jens Voss (jens.voss(AT)poet.de), Sep 04 2001

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Sep 05 2001

Definition corrected by Jerry Metzger, Nov 04 2009

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