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A089329
Smallest k such that the concatenation r*k for r = 1 to n followed by a 1 is a prime.
1
1, 2, 1, 7, 2, 2, 24, 8, 1, 103, 1, 12, 43, 94, 21, 1, 11, 12, 4, 23, 27, 4, 89, 20, 42, 1, 43, 6, 41, 44, 190, 22, 12, 139, 41, 114, 16, 3, 26, 171, 32, 220, 78, 86, 135, 117, 21, 44, 49, 143, 248, 175, 9, 76, 6, 66, 426, 46, 237, 252, 9, 62, 319, 88, 150, 123, 61, 122, 300, 15
OFFSET
1,2
EXAMPLE
a(4) = 7 and the prime is 71421281 = A089328(4).
MATHEMATICA
Do[s = ""; k = 0; While[ !PrimeQ[ToExpression[s]], s = ""; k++; For[r = 1, r <= n, r++, s = s <> ToString[r*k]]; s = s <> "1"]; Print[k], {n, 1, 50}] (* Ryan Propper, Jul 24 2005 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A089328.
Sequence in context: A144446 A121416 A317547 * A213053 A200236 A292191
KEYWORD
base,nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Nov 04 2003
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by Ryan Propper, Jul 24 2005
More terms from David Wasserman, Sep 13 2005
STATUS
approved