OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Numbers n such that 80*10^n + 9 is prime.
Numbers n such that digit 8 followed by n >= 0 occurrences of digit 0 followed by digit 9 is prime.
Numbers corresponding to terms <= 697 are certified primes.
a(28) > 2*10^5. - Robert Price, Dec 18 2015
REFERENCES
Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp, Zahlenfolgen mit homogenem Ziffernkern, MNU 59/8 (2006), pp. 462-467.
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = A103070(n+1) - 1. - Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 01 2008
EXAMPLE
8000009 is prime, hence 5 is a term.
MATHEMATICA
Do[If[PrimeQ[80*10^n + 9], Print[n]], {n, 0, 20000}] (* Robert Price, Dec 18 2015 *)
PROG
(PARI) a=89; for(n=0, 1000, if(isprime(a), print1(n, ", ")); a=10*a-81)
(PARI) for(n=0, 1000, if(isprime(80*10^n + 9), print1(n, ", ")))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp (oberschelp(AT)informatik.rwth-aachen.de), Nov 30 2004
EXTENSIONS
8856 from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 01 2008
a(23)-a(26) from Kamada data by Ray Chandler, Apr 29 2015
a(27) from Robert Price, Dec 18 2015
STATUS
approved