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A101826 Indices of primes in sequence defined by A(0) = 37, A(n) = 10*A(n-1) - 53 for n > 0. 0
0, 1, 217, 691, 1804, 2206, 2872 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Numbers n such that (280*10^n + 53)/9 is prime.

Numbers n such that digit 3 followed by n >= 0 occurrences of digit 1 followed by digit 7 is prime.

Numbers corresponding to terms <= 691 are certified primes.

REFERENCES

Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp, Zahlenfolgen mit homogenem Ziffernkern, MNU 59/8 (2006), pp. 462-467.

LINKS

Makoto Kamada, Factorizations of near-repdigit numbers.

EXAMPLE

317 is prime, hence 1 is a term.

MATHEMATICA

nn=2900; Transpose[Select[Thread[{NestList[10#-53&, 37, nn], Range[0, nn]}], PrimeQ[First[#]]&]] [[2]] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Mar 26 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a=37; for(n=0, 2000, if(isprime(a), print1(n, ", ")); a=10*a-53)

(PARI) for(n=0, 2000, if(isprime((280*10^n+53)/9), print1(n, ", ")))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000533, A002275.

a(n) = A101393(n) - 1.

Sequence in context: A038594 A020232 A019422 * A020251 A183778 A086026

Adjacent sequences:  A101823 A101824 A101825 * A101827 A101828 A101829

KEYWORD

nonn,hard,more

AUTHOR

Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de) and Walter Oberschelp (oberschelp(AT)informatik.rwth-aachen.de), Dec 20 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 02 2008

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