A093781 a(n) is the position of the prime 5 in the Euclid-Mullin (EM) sequence of type A000945, if it were started with prime(n) instead of 2.

7, 7, 1, 7, 18, 10, 3, 4, 11, 7, 8, 8, 10, 7, 3, 13, 8, 6, 7, 8, 6, 4, 7, 8, 9, 4, 6, 3, 4, 11, 5, 8, 3, 4, 4, 8, 8, 13, 3, 10, 21, 15, 6, 8, 3, 4, 13, 5, 3, 4, 8, 14, 6, 10, 3, 6, 12, 6, 10, 6, 6, 13, 8, 4, 6, 3, 11, 5, 3, 4, 13, 6, 10, 8, 4, 26, 8, 7, 11, 4, 7, 10, 7, 5, 4, 7, 16, 8, 7, 9, 3, 5, 5, 6

Offset

1,1

Comments

a(38) = 13 because prime(38) = 163 and the corresponding EM sequence is {163, 2, 3, 11, 7, 75307, 3931, 5399, 3041, 409, 179, 92958641873, 5, 2003, ...}, where 5 appears at the 13th position. - David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007

Links

David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Prog

(PARI) em(i) = local(p, c, n, f, q); p = prime(i); if (p == 5, return(1)); c = 1; n = p; while (1, c++; f = factor(n + 1, 2^31 - 1); q = f[1, 1]; if (!isprime(q), f = factor(n + 1); q = f[1, 1]); if (q == 5, return(c)); n *= q); \\ David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007

Crossrefs

Cf. A000945, A051308-A051334, A056756, A093777-A093780.

Cf. A093782.

Sequence in context: A011376 A011452 A199952 * A232649 A232650 A365672

Adjacent sequences: A093778 A093779 A093780 * A093782 A093783 A093784

Keyword

nonn

Author

Labos Elemer, May 04 2004

Extensions

More terms from David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007

Status

approved