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a(n) is the n-th J_4-prime (Josephus_4 prime).
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%I #25 Aug 05 2024 14:10:10

%S 2,5,10,369,609,1841,2462,3297,3837,14945,94590,98121,965013,1634157

%N a(n) is the n-th J_4-prime (Josephus_4 prime).

%C Place the numbers 1..N (N>=2) on a circle and cyclicly mark the 4th unmarked number until all N numbers are marked. The order in which the N numbers are marked defines a permutation; N is a J_4-prime if this permutation consists of a single cycle of length N.

%C There are 13 J_4-primes in the interval 2..1000000 only. No formula is known; the J_4-primes have been found by exhaustive search.

%C a(15) > 3*10^6. - _Bert Dobbelaere_, Apr 20 2019

%D R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth & O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics (1989), Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. Sections 1.3 & 3.3.

%H P. R. J. Asveld, <a href="http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/20685/">Permuting operations on strings and the distribution of their prime numbers</a> (2011), TR-CTIT-11-24, Dept. of CS, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands.

%H P. R. J. Asveld, <a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/pdf/9d8542763057ef03a22b57f87085d69497ddaf46">Permuting Operations on Strings-Their Permutations and Their Primes</a>, Twente University of Technology.

%H P. R. J. Asveld, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.07.019">Permuting Operations on Strings and Their Relation to Prime Numbers</a>, Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (2011) 1915-1932.

%H <a href="/index/J#Josephus">Index entries for sequences related to the Josephus Problem</a>

%e 2 is a J_4-prime (trivial).

%Y A163782 through A163783 for J_2- through J_3-primes. A163785 through A163800 for J_5- through J_20-primes.

%K nonn,more

%O 1,1

%A _Peter R. J. Asveld_, Aug 05 2009

%E a(14) from _Bert Dobbelaere_, Apr 20 2019