OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Erdős conjectures that these are the only values of n with this property.
No other terms below 2^120. - Max Alekseyev, Dec 08 2011
Curiously, Mientka and Weitzenkamp say there are 9 such numbers below 20000. - Michel Marcus, May 12 2013
Presumably, Mientka and Weitzenkamp are including 1 and 2. - Robert Israel, Dec 23 2015
Observation: The prime numbers of the form (n-2) associated with each element of the series are (2,5,13,19,43,73,103). These prime numbers are exactly the first elements of A068374 (primes n such that positive values of n - A002110(k) are all primes for k>0). - David Morales Marciel, Dec 14 2015
REFERENCES
R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, A19.
F. Le Lionnais, Les Nombres Remarquables, Paris, Hermann, 1983, p. 96, 1983.
D. S. Mitrinovic et al., Handbook of Number Theory, Kluwer, p. 306.
D. Wells, Curious and interesting numbers, Penguin Books, p. 118.
LINKS
P. Erdős, On integers of the form 2^k + p and some related questions, Summa Bras. Math., 2 (1950), 113-123.
Walter E. Mientka and Roger C. Weitzenkamp, On f-plentiful numbers, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 1969, pages 374-377.
EXAMPLE
45 is here because 43, 41, 37, 29 and 13 are primes.
MATHEMATICA
lst={}; Do[k=1; While[p=n-2^k; p>0 && PrimeQ[p], k++ ]; If[p<=0, AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 3, 1000}]; lst (* T. D. Noe, Sep 15 2002 *)
PROG
(PARI) isok(n) = {my(k = 1); while (2^k < n, if (! isprime(n-2^k), return (0)); k++; ); return (1); } \\ Michel Marcus, Dec 14 2015
(MATLAB)
N = 10^8; % to get terms < N
p = primes(N);
A = [3:N];
for k = 1:floor(log2(N))
A = intersect(A, [1:(2^k), (p+2^k)]);
end
A % Robert Israel, Dec 23 2015
CROSSREFS
Cf. A067526 (n such that n-2^k is prime or 1), A067527 (n such that n-3^k is prime), A067528 (n such that n-4^k is prime or 1), A067529 (n such that n-5^k is prime), A100348 (n such that n-4^k is prime), A100349 (n such that n-2^k is prime or semiprime), A100350 (primes p such that p-2^k is prime or semiprime), A100351 (n such that n-2^k is semiprime).
Cf. A022005.
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Additional comments from T. D. Noe, Sep 15 2002
Definition edited by Robert Israel, Dec 23 2015
STATUS
approved