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A087146 Numbers n such that n!+(n+1)!-1 is prime. 1
1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 14, 17, 27, 28, 33, 39, 103, 115, 205, 291, 1431, 1532, 1710, 1937 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

291 is in the sequence and also is in the sequence A087147, thus (291!+292!-1,291!+292!+1) is a twin pair of primes. Any additional terms are greater than 1800 with the next prime having more than 5086 digits.

REFERENCES

H. Dubner, Factorial and primorial primes, J. Rec. Math., 19(No. 3, 1987)

EXAMPLE

3 is in the sequence because 3!+4!-1=29 is prime.

MATHEMATICA

v={}; Do[If[PrimeQ[n!+(n+1)!-1], v=Append[v, n]; Print[v]], {n, 1800}]; v

CROSSREFS

Cf. A087147, A051856.

Sequence in context: A079741 A000861 A108168 * A033945 A098142 A066821

Adjacent sequences:  A087143 A087144 A087145 * A087147 A087148 A087149

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Farideh Firoozbakht (f.firoozbakht(AT)sci.ui.ac.ir), Aug 19 2003

EXTENSIONS

One more term from Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Aug 13 2005

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