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A137812 Left- or right-truncatable primes. 4
2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 23, 29, 31, 37, 43, 47, 53, 59, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 97, 113, 131, 137, 139, 167, 173, 179, 197, 223, 229, 233, 239, 271, 283, 293, 311, 313, 317, 331, 337, 347, 353, 359, 367, 373, 379, 383, 397, 431, 433, 439, 443, 467, 479, 523, 547, 571 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Repeatedly removing a digit from either the left or right produces only primes. There are 149677 terms in this sequence, ending with 8939662423123592347173339993799.

REFERENCES

Angell, I. O. and Godwin, H. J. "On Truncatable Primes." Math. Comput. 31, 265-267, 1977.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..10000

Index entries for sequences related to truncatable primes

Carlos Rivera, Puzzle 2: Prime Strings

Eric Weisstein, MathWorld: Truncatable Prime

EXAMPLE

139 is here because (removing 9 from the right) 13 is prime and (removing 1 from the left) 3 is prime.

MATHEMATICA

Clear[s]; s[0]={2, 3, 5, 7}; n=1; While[s[n]={}; Do[k=s[n-1][[i]]; Do[p=j*10^n+k; If[PrimeQ[p], AppendTo[s[n], p]], {j, 9}]; Do[p=10*k+j; If[PrimeQ[p], AppendTo[s[n], p]], {j, 9}], {i, Length[s[n-1]]}]; s[n]=Union[s[n]]; Length[s[n]]>0, n++ ]; t=s[0]; Do[t=Join[t, s[i]], {i, n}]; t

CROSSREFS

Cf. A024770 (left-truncatable primes), A024785 (right-truncatable primes), A077390 (left-and-right truncatable primes), A080608.

Sequence in context: A005109 A179336 A080608 * A094317 A074834 A163998

Adjacent sequences:  A137809 A137810 A137811 * A137813 A137814 A137815

KEYWORD

base,fini,nonn

AUTHOR

T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Feb 11 2008

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