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A087548
Beginning with 1, smallest multiple of n such that a(n)*a(n-1) + 1 is a prime.
0
1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 6, 7, 16, 27, 10, 33, 12, 13, 42, 15, 16, 85, 18, 114, 20, 21, 22, 46, 72, 25, 52, 189, 84, 29, 60, 31, 192, 33, 34, 70, 36, 185, 228, 39, 80, 164, 420, 43, 220, 45, 138, 94, 48, 147, 50, 51, 312, 106, 270, 55, 168, 171, 348, 59, 60, 122, 620, 126, 256, 195
OFFSET
1,2
MAPLE
a[1] := 1:for n from 2 to 120 do l := 1:while(not isprime(a[n-1]*l*n+1)) do l := l+1: od:a[n] := l*n:od:seq(a[j], j=1..120); # Sascha Kurz
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A356332 A065634 A364223 * A353959 A242488 A111619
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Sep 13 2003
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by Sascha Kurz, Sep 22 2003
STATUS
approved