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A088125 Let f(n,x) = 1 + 4*x + 6*x^2 + 8*x^3 + 9*x^4 + ... + composite(n)*x^n; a(n) = smallest x such that f(n,x) is a prime, or 0 if no such prime exists. 2

%I #18 Jul 02 2018 03:07:51

%S 1,1,1,2,6,34,2,1,3,1,11,42,120,12,8,1,4,2,24,86,1,54,154,202,246,25,

%T 10,60,1,114,34,22,21,1,88,14,276,70,795,518,448,252,6,2,1,18,768,124,

%U 1,186,143,1,138,456,366,19,47,112,336,772,140,3,88,30,188,90,437,90,294

%N Let f(n,x) = 1 + 4*x + 6*x^2 + 8*x^3 + 9*x^4 + ... + composite(n)*x^n; a(n) = smallest x such that f(n,x) is a prime, or 0 if no such prime exists.

%C According to Bunyakovsky's conjecture, if f(n,X) is irreducible over the rationals, f(n,x) is prime for infinitely many positive integers x. It is irreducible for 1 <= n <= 1800. - _Robert Israel_, Jul 01 2018

%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A088125/b088125.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..400</a>

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyakovsky_conjecture">Bunyakovsky conjecture</a>

%p P:= 1: q:= 1:

%p for n from 1 to 100 do

%p q:= q+1;

%p while isprime(q) do q:= q+1 od;

%p P:= P + q*x^n;

%p if not irreduc(P) then A[n]:= 0

%p else

%p Pf:= unapply(P,x);

%p for xx from 1 while not isprime(Pf(xx)) do od:

%p A[n]:= xx;

%p fi

%p od:

%p seq(A[n],n=1..100); # _Robert Israel_, Jul 01 2018

%Y Cf. A088122, A088123, A088124.

%Y Cf. A060697 (n for which a(n)=1).

%K nonn

%O 1,4

%A _Amarnath Murthy_, Sep 25 2003

%E More terms from Tom Mueller (muel4503(AT)uni-trier.de), May 04 2004

%E More terms from _David Wasserman_, Jul 25 2005

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