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A067363 a(n)=p-n!^3, where p is the smallest prime > n!^3+1. 4

%I #15 May 25 2023 13:44:18

%S 2,3,7,5,17,11,17,23,23,103,59,17,29,79,59,23,347,307,53,227,131,83,

%T 67,223,29,59,197,83,181,293,71,71,139,43,67,103,431,743,1279,197,419,

%U 127,271,73,229,503,211,181,1597,151,151,197,1013,179,587,71,137,547

%N a(n)=p-n!^3, where p is the smallest prime > n!^3+1.

%C The first 118 terms are primes. Are all terms prime? For n!^i, with 0<i<6, it looks like the terms are prime, too (see references). But for n!^6: a(28)=1189=29*41.

%C The first 2278 terms are primes. - _Dana Jacobsen_, May 13 2015

%H Dana Jacobsen, <a href="/A067363/b067363.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..2278</a>

%H Cyril Banderier, <a href="http://algo.inria.fr/banderier/Computations/prime_factorial.html">Fortunate Numbers</a>

%t a[n_] := For[i=2, True, i++, If[PrimeQ[n!^3+i], Return[i]]]

%t spn[n_]:=Module[{c=(n!)^3},NextPrime[c+1]-c]; Array[spn,60] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, May 25 2023 *)

%o (MuPAD) for n from 1 to 50 do f := n!^3:a := nextprime(f+2)-f:print(a) end_for

%o (PARI) for(n=1, 100, f=n!^3; print1(nextprime(f+2)-f,", ")) \\ _Dana Jacobsen_, May 13 2015

%o (Perl) use ntheory ":all"; use Math::GMP qw/:constant/; for my $n (1..500) { my $f=factorial($n)**3; say "$n ", next_prime($f+1)-$f; } # _Dana Jacobsen_, May 13 2015

%Y Cf. A037153, A037153, A005235, A067362, A067364, A067365.

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A Frank Buss (fb(AT)frank-buss.de), Jan 19 2002

%E Edited by _Dean Hickerson_, Mar 02 2002

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