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A083522
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Smallest k such that k*(k+1)*(k+2)*...*(k+n-1) + 1 is prime, or 0 if no such number exists.
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1, 1, 1, 0, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 2, 1, 10, 5, 3, 9, 6, 6, 4, 5, 8, 6, 7, 19, 25, 11, 2, 1, 3, 9, 23, 7, 7, 39, 5, 7, 2, 1, 5, 78, 2, 1, 15, 19, 12, 17, 6, 3, 14, 8, 21, 23, 17, 14, 40, 16, 6, 8, 13, 15, 5, 15, 82, 46, 51, 39, 43, 6, 11, 61, 57, 16, 2, 1, 26, 54, 2, 1, 13, 4, 62, 31, 69, 27, 155, 21
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OFFSET
| 1,5
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COMMENTS
| The product of four consecutive integers + 1 is always composite (a square), so a(4) = 0. Are there any more zeros in the sequence?
Since rather large numbers (up to 193 digits) are encountered in the computation, the Pocklington-Lehmer "P-1" primality test is used, as implemented in PARI 2.1.3.
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EXAMPLE
| 1*2*3*4*5 + 1 = 121 = 11*11 and 2*3*4*5*6 + 1 = 721 = 7*103 are composite, but 3*4*5*6*7 + 1 = 2521 is prime, so a(5) = 3.
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PROG
| (PARI) m=1000; for(n=1, 85, b=0; k=1; while(b<1&&k<m, if(!isprime(prod(j=k, k+n-1, j)+1, 1), k++, b=1)); print1(if(k<m, k, 0), ", "))
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CROSSREFS
| Cf. A083520, A083521.
Sequence in context: A196179 A120188 A097356 * A108942 A025561 A187321
Adjacent sequences: A083519 A083520 A083521 * A083523 A083524 A083525
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KEYWORD
| nonn
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AUTHOR
| Amarnath Murthy and Meenakshi Srikanth (amarnath_murthy(AT)yahoo.com), May 05 2003
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EXTENSIONS
| Edited and extended by Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de) and Don Reble (djr(AT)nk.ca), May 06 2003
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