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A144255 Semiprimes of the form n^2+1. 3
10, 26, 65, 82, 122, 145, 226, 362, 485, 626, 785, 842, 901, 1157, 1226, 1522, 1765, 1937, 2026, 2117, 2305, 2402, 2501, 2602, 2705, 3365, 3482, 3601, 3722, 3845, 4097, 4226, 4762, 5042, 5777, 6085, 6242, 6401, 7226, 7397, 7745, 8465, 9026, 9217, 10001 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Iwaniec proves that there are an infinite number of semiprimes or primes of the form n^2+1. Because n^2+1 is not a square for n>0, all such semiprimes have two distinct prime factors.

REFERENCES

Iwaniec, H., "Almost primes represented by quadratic polynomials", Invent. math. 47, 1978, 171-188.

LINKS

Charles R Greathouse IV, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

FORMULA

a(n)=A085722(n)^2+1.

PROG

(PARI) select(vector(500, n, n^2+1), n->bigomega(n)==2)

\\ Zak Seidov Feb 24 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001358, A085722.

Sequence in context: A125075 A055710 A134420 * A072379 A005970 A192254

Adjacent sequences:  A144252 A144253 A144254 * A144256 A144257 A144258

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 16 2008

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