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A238797 Smallest k such that 2^k - (2*n+1) and (2*n+1)*2^k - 1 are both prime, k <= 2*n+1, or 0 if no such k exists. 3

%I #41 Oct 19 2014 15:02:21

%S 0,3,4,0,0,0,0,5,6,5,7,6,9,5,0,7,6,6,0,0,10,0,6,0,7,9,6,7,8,0,17,8,0,

%T 0,7,0,0,18,0,0,0,8,0,10,8,9,18,0,0,7,0,0,8,12,0,7,0,11,16,0,21,0,0,0,

%U 8,14,0,0,18,9,10,8,77,0,0,0,12,8,0,11,18,0

%N Smallest k such that 2^k - (2*n+1) and (2*n+1)*2^k - 1 are both prime, k <= 2*n+1, or 0 if no such k exists.

%C Numbers n such that 2^k - (2*n+1) and (2*n+1)*2^k - 1 are both prime:

%C For k = 0: 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, ... Intersection of A000043 and A000043

%C for k = 1: 3, 4, 6, 94, ... Intersection of A050414 and A002235

%C for k = 2: 4, 8, 10, 12, 18, 32, ... Intersection of A059608 and A001770

%C for k = 3: Intersection of A059609 and A001771

%C for k = 4: 21, ... Intersection of A059610 and A002236

%C for k = 5: Intersection of A096817 and A001772

%C for k = 6: Intersection of A096818 and A001773

%C for k = 7: 5, 10, 14, ... Intersection of A059612 and A002237

%C for k = 8: 6, 16, 20, 36, ... Intersection of A059611 and A001774

%C for k = 9: 5, 21, ... Intersection of A096819 and A001775

%C for k = 10: 7, 13, ... Intersection of A096820 and A002238

%C for k = 11: 6, 8, 12, ...

%C for k = 12: 9, ...

%C for k = 13: 5, 8, 10, ...

%H Giovanni Resta, <a href="/A238797/b238797.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%e a(1) = 3 because 2^3 - (2*1+1) = 5 and (2*1+1)*2^3 - 1 = 23 are both prime, 3 = 2*1+1,

%e a(2) = 4 because 2^4 - (2*2+1) = 11 and (2*2+1)*2^4 - 1 = 79 are both prime, 4 < 2*2+1 = 5.

%t a[n_] := Catch@ Block[{k = 1}, While[k <= 2*n+1, If[2^k - (2*n + 1) > 0 && PrimeQ[2^k - (2*n+1)] && PrimeQ[(2*n + 1)*2^k-1], Throw@k]; k++]; 0]; a/@ Range[0, 80] (* _Giovanni Resta_, Mar 15 2014 *)

%Y Cf. A238748, A238904 (smallest k such that 2^k + (2n+1) and (2n+1)*2^k + 1 are both prime, k <= n, or -1 if no such k exists).

%K nonn

%O 0,2

%A _Ilya Lopatin_ and _Juri-Stepan Gerasimov_, Mar 05 2014

%E a(0), a(19), a(20) corrected by _Giovanni Resta_, Mar 13 2014

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