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A101956 Indices of primes in sequence defined by A(0) = 29, A(n) = 10*A(n-1) - 51 for n > 0. 0
0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 12, 23, 27, 51, 53, 93, 296, 656, 1005, 5346, 8188, 9313 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Numbers n such that (210*10^n + 51)/9 is prime.

Numbers n such that digit 2 followed by n >= 0 occurrences of digit 3 followed by digit 9 is prime.

Numbers corresponding to terms <= 656 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

2339 is prime, hence 2 is a term.

MATHEMATICA

Transpose[Select[Partition[With[{no=10000}, Riffle[NestList[10#-51&, 29, no], Range[0, no]]], 2], PrimeQ[First[#]]&]][[2]]  (* From Harvey P. Dale, Feb 05 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a=29; for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime(a), print1(n, ", ")); a=10*a-51)

(PARI) for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime((210*10^n+51)/9), print1(n, ", ")))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000533, A002275.

a(n) = A102951(n) - 1.

Sequence in context: A102808 A140512 A171863 * A002238 A002255 A192116

Adjacent sequences:  A101953 A101954 A101955 * A101957 A101958 A101959

KEYWORD

nonn,hard,more

AUTHOR

Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de) and Walter Oberschelp (oberschelp(AT)informatik.rwth-aachen.de), Dec 23 2004

EXTENSIONS

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

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