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A083472
Smallest prime p such that the backward concatenation of n consecutive decreasing primes starting with p is a prime.
1
2, 5, 29, 59, 37, 17, 193, 59, 167, 149, 103, 563, 109, 107, 149, 317, 409, 829, 283, 263, 467, 107, 89, 3181, 313, 113, 431, 521, 739, 577, 487, 617, 1601, 937, 167, 991, 2699, 293, 1481, 3593, 4943, 593, 541, 673, 241, 719, 1217, 449, 421, 1667, 337, 353, 1297
OFFSET
1,1
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 29 as the concatenation of 29,23 and 19, i.e. 292319, is a prime.
MATHEMATICA
bcpQ[n_]:=PrimeQ[FromDigits[Flatten[IntegerDigits/@Reverse[n]]]]; With[{prs = Prime[ Range[10000]]}, Table[Select[Partition[prs, n, 1], bcpQ, 1][[1, -1]], {n, 60}]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 12 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A083471.
Sequence in context: A061351 A126107 A193901 * A213996 A057794 A357199
KEYWORD
base,nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy and Meenakshi Srikanth (menakan_s(AT)yahoo.com), May 02 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms from David Wasserman, Nov 15 2004
STATUS
approved