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A050267 Primes or negative values of primes in the sequence b(n) = 47*n^2 - 1701*n + 10181, n >= 0. 37
10181, 8527, 6967, 5501, 4129, 2851, 1667, 577, -419, -1321, -2129, -2843, -3463, -3989, -4421, -4759, -5003, -5153, -5209, -5171, -5039, -4813, -4493, -4079, -3571, -2969, -2273, -1483, -599, 379, 1451, 2617, 3877, 5231, 6679, 8221, 9857, 11587, 13411, 15329, 17341, 19447, 21647, 31387 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Terms are listed in the order of their appearance in sequence b.

This is a transformed version of the polynomial P(x) = 47*x^2 + 9*x - 5209 whose absolute value gives 43 distinct primes for -24 <= x <= 18, found by G. W. Fung in 1988. - Hugo Pfoertner, Dec 13 2019

REFERENCES

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 3rd ed., Springer, 2004 (ISBN 0-387-20860-7); see Section A17, p. 59.

Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Bigger Primes, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag New York, 2004.

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

G. W. Fung and H. C. Williams, Quadratic polynomials which have a high density of prime values, Math. Comput. 55(191) (1990), 345-353.

Carlos Rivera, Problem 12: Prime producing polynomials, The Prime Puzzles & Problems Connection.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime-Generating Polynomial.

MATHEMATICA

lst={}; Do[p=47*n^2-1701*n+10181; If[PrimeQ[p], AppendTo[lst, p]], {n, 0, 5!}]; lst (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 29 2009 *)

Select[Table[47n^2-1701n+10181, {n, 0, 50}], PrimeQ] (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 03 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) [n | n <- apply(m->47*m^2-1701*m+10181, [0..100]), isprime(abs(n))] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 18 2017

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002383, A005471, A005846, A007635, A022464, A027753, A027755, A027758, A048059, A050267, A050268, A116206, A117081, A267252.

Sequence in context: A251274 A184205 A128878 * A102326 A216262 A243410

Adjacent sequences: A050264 A050265 A050266 * A050268 A050269 A050270

KEYWORD

sign,less

AUTHOR

Eric W. Weisstein

EXTENSIONS

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, May 10 2007

Further edited by Klaus Brockhaus, Mar 20 2010

More terms (to distinguish from quadratic) from Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 18 2017

STATUS

approved

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