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A211685
Prime numbers > 1000 such that all the substrings of length >= 3 are primes (substrings with leading '0' are considered to be nonprime).
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1277, 1373, 1499, 1571, 1733, 1811, 1997, 2113, 2239, 2293, 2719, 3137, 3313, 3373, 3491, 3499, 3593, 3673, 3677, 3733, 3739, 3797, 4211, 4337, 4397, 4673, 4877, 4919, 5233, 5419, 5479, 6131, 6173, 6197, 6199, 6311, 6317, 6599, 6619, 6733
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Only numbers > 1000 are considered, since all 3-digit primes are trivial members.
By definition, each term of the sequence with more than 4 digits is built up by an overlapped union of previous terms, i.e., a(59)=33739 has the two embedded previous terms a(14)=3373 and a(21)=3739.
The sequence is finite, the last term is 349199 (n=63). Proof of finiteness: Let p be a number with more than 6 digits. By the argument above, each 6-digit substring of p must be a previous term. The only 6-digit term is 349199. Thus, there is no number p with the desired property.
LINKS
Hieronymus Fischer, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..63 (complete sequence).
EXAMPLE
a(1)=1277, since all substrings of length >= 3 are primes (127, 277, and 1277).
a(63)=349199, all substrings of length >= 3 (349, 491, 919, 199, 3491, 4919, 9199, 34919, 49199 and 349199) are primes.
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,base,full
AUTHOR
Hieronymus Fischer, Jun 08 2012
STATUS
approved