OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Numbers n such that (590*10^n - 23)/9 is prime.
Numbers n such that digit 6 followed by n >= 0 occurrences of digit 5 followed by digit 3 is prime.
Numbers corresponding to terms <= 616 are certified primes.
REFERENCES
Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp, Zahlenfolgen mit homogenem Ziffernkern, MNU 59/8 (2006), pp. 462-467.
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = A103039(n) - 1.
EXAMPLE
6553 is prime, hence 2 is a term.
MATHEMATICA
Flatten[Position[NestList[10#+23&, 63, 1900], _?PrimeQ]]-1 (* To generate more terms, change the constant 1900 to a larger number, but computation times will increase rapidly. *) (* Harvey P. Dale, May 06 2013 *)
PROG
(PARI) a=63; for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime(a), print1(n, ", ")); a=10*a+23)
(PARI) for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime((590*10^n-23)/9), print1(n, ", ")))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp (oberschelp(AT)informatik.rwth-aachen.de), Dec 06 2004
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 01 2008
a(23)-a(24) from Kamada data by Ray Chandler, Apr 30 2015
STATUS
approved