OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
a(5) is greater than 105000000.
The a(n)-th prime is the smallest start of n+2 consecutive primes in arithmetic progression. - Jens Kruse Andersen, Jun 14 2014
LINKS
J. K. Andersen, The minimal CPAP-k.
L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin, Consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, Math. Comp. vol. 21 no. 99 (1967) p. 489.
G. W. Polites, Prime Desert n-Tuplets, Amer. Math. Monthly vol. 95 no. 2 (1988) pp. 98-104.
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 659426 because d(659426) = d(659426+1) = d(659426+2) = d(6594286+3) or 9843019, 9843049, 9843079, 9843109, 9843139 are five consecutive primes with same difference and prime(659426) = 9843019 is the smallest prime number with this property.
Also a(4) = 6904737 because d(6904737) = d(6904737+1) = ... = d(6904737+4) or 121174811, 121174841, 121174871, 121174901, 121174931, 121174961 are six consecutive primes with same difference and prime(6904737) = 121174811 is the smallest prime number with this property.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
more,nonn
AUTHOR
Farideh Firoozbakht, Dec 07 2003
STATUS
approved