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A087592
Primes whose successive differences are increasing power of 2: a(1) = 2, a(n+1) = a(n) + 2^k; a(n+1) prime, k minimal and greater than the index for the previous term.
2
2, 3, 5, 13, 29, 61, 317, 829, 1073742653
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Next term a(9) has 292 digits and is too large to include.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A329241 A177502 A072536 * A248526 A324375 A038879
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Sep 18 2003
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by Ray Chandler, Sep 25 2003
STATUS
approved