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A088884 Primes which when concatenated with their reverse and decremented by 2 yield a new prime. 1
3, 5, 11, 53, 107, 131, 149, 167, 179, 191, 311, 317, 389, 503, 599, 947, 971, 1049, 1061, 1097, 1187, 1223, 1259, 1427, 1439, 1523, 1571, 1583, 1697, 1721, 1787, 1811, 1871, 1913, 1931, 1949, 3089, 3119, 3191, 3209, 3299, 3449, 3617, 3671, 3677, 3761 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

It appears that if concat(p,reverse(p))-2 is prime, then concat(p,reverse(p))+2 is not and vice versa. This was tested for the first 60000 primes.

EXAMPLE

a(4) =53 because (i) 53 is prime and (ii) when 53 is concatenated with its reverse (35) - 2, the result (5333) is prime.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A067087 (Concatenation of n-th prime and its reverse.), A088883 (Primes which when concatenated with their reverse and incremented by 2 yield a new prime.).

Sequence in context: A175173 A004203 A201473 * A058029 A206640 A046928

Adjacent sequences:  A088881 A088882 A088883 * A088885 A088886 A088887

KEYWORD

base,nonn

AUTHOR

Chuck Seggelin (barkeep(AT)plastereddragon.com), Oct 21 2003

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