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Primes which start a Cunningham chain of length 4 where every entity of the chain is smallest of the prime number pair (p, p+8).
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%I #9 Apr 03 2023 10:36:13

%S 359,1069199,1392269,2614169,10528649,16981379,18287309,19463519,

%T 21071489,21171509,22121579,24857639,40887569,41809259,76130129,

%U 88362479,118136279,128893049,131612609,153318449,289743689,315495539

%N Primes which start a Cunningham chain of length 4 where every entity of the chain is smallest of the prime number pair (p, p+8).

%C a(n) generates a Cunningham chain of length 4 and a_n(i) + 8 is also prime for i = 1,2,3 and 4.

%C This sequence is infinite under Dickson's conjecture.

%H Chris K. Caldwell, <a href="https://t5k.org/glossary/xpage/CunninghamChain.html">Cunningham chain</a>

%e a(1)=359, with associated Cunningham chain 359, 719, 1439, 2879; all of which are the lower member of a pair (p, p+8).

%e (359,367)

%e (719,727)

%e (1439,1447)

%e (2879,2887)

%o (Python)

%o p1=2

%o n=4

%o mx=10

%o count=0

%o while p1>2:

%o ....## Generate the a chain of numbers with length 4

%o ....cc=[]

%o ....cc.append(p1)

%o ....for i in range(1, n):

%o ........cc.append((2**(i)*p1+((2**i)-1)))

%o ....## chain entries + 8

%o ....cc2=[c+8 for c in cc]

%o ....## check if cc is a Cunningham Chain

%o ....## pf.isp_list returns True or false for a given list of numbers

%o ....## if they are prime or not

%o ....##

%o ....pcc=pf.isp_list(cc)

%o ....pcc2=pf.isp_list(cc2)

%o ....## Number of primes for cc

%o ....npcc=pcc.count(True)

%o ....## Number of primes for cc2

%o ....npcc2=pcc2.count(True)

%o ....if npcc==n and npcc2==n:

%o ........print "For length ", n, " the series is : ", cc, " and ", cc2

%o ....p1=pf.nextp(p1)

%Y Cf. A236443, A178421, A005602, A059763

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Abhiram R Devesh_, Feb 02 2014

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