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A077779 Palindromic wing primes (a.k.a. near-repdigit palindromes) of the form (10^a(n)-1)/9+2*10^[ a(n)/2 ]. 0
3, 5, 39, 195, 19637 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Prime versus probable prime status and proofs are given in the author's table.

REFERENCES

C. Caldwell and H. Dubner, "Journal of Recreational Mathematics", Volume 28, No. 1, 1996-97, pp. 1-9.

LINKS

Patrick De Geest, World!Of Numbers, Palindromic Wing Primes (PWP's)

Makoto Kamada, Prime numbers of the form 11...11311...11

Index entries for primes involving repunits.

FORMULA

a(n) = 2*A107123(n)+1.

EXAMPLE

a(n)=5 -> (10^5-1)/9+2*10^2 = 11311.

MATHEMATICA

Do[ If[ PrimeQ[(10^n + 18*10^Floor[n/2] - 1)/9], Print[n]], {n, 3, 20000, 2}] (from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(at)rgwv.com), Dec 16 2005)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004023, A077775-A077798, A107123-A107127, A107648, A107649, A115073, A183174-A183187.

Sequence in context: A158878 A184314 A183258 * A176112 A146318 A178545

Adjacent sequences:  A077776 A077777 A077778 * A077780 A077781 A077782

KEYWORD

more,nonn,base

AUTHOR

Patrick De Geest (pdg(AT)worldofnumbers.com), Nov 16 2002.

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