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A258127
Smallest k such that Sum_{i=0..k} binomial(n,i) is prime, or a(n)=0 if there is no such k.
4
1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 4, 4, 6, 1, 16, 1, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 6, 8, 16, 2, 1, 0, 1, 4, 6, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 10, 0, 48, 2, 1, 36, 20, 6, 2, 8, 1, 10, 1, 16, 13, 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 8, 74, 64, 1, 16
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
a(n)=0 for n=9,29,33,34,37,38,39,41,45,49,...;
records a(n) are 1,2,4,6,16,48,74,...
at positions 1,3,5,15,17,50,80,...
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FORMULA
a(n) <= n-1.
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = {my(k = 0); while(! isprime(sum(i=0, k, binomial(n, i))), k++; if ((k>n) && !isprime(binomial(n, k)), return (0); )); k; } \\ Michel Marcus, May 23 2015
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A100762 A059147 A091891 * A181982 A070194 A323300
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Vladimir Shevelev, May 21 2015
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Peter J. C. Moses, May 21 2015
STATUS
approved