login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A275575
Numbers k such that (3^k + 1)/(3 - (-1)^k) is a prime.
1
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 16, 23, 32, 43, 64, 281, 359, 487, 577, 1579, 1663, 1741, 3191, 9209, 11257, 12743, 13093, 17027, 26633, 104243, 134227, 152287, 700897, 1205459
OFFSET
1,1
MAPLE
A275575:=n->`if`(isprime((3^n + 1)/(3 - (-1)^n)), n, NULL): seq(A275575(n), n=1..2*10^3); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Dec 26 2016
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[0, 10^3], PrimeQ[(3^# + 1)/(3 - (-1)^#)] &]
PROG
(PARI) isok(n) = isprime( (3^n + 1)/(3 - (-1)^n)); \\ Michel Marcus, Dec 26 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Thomas Ordowski, Dec 25 2016
STATUS
approved