login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A096983 a(n) is the smallest prime whose base-n digits add up to a composite number. 0

%I #8 Jul 26 2015 01:52:10

%S 23,233,7,73,11,4801,11,17,13,19,17,337,17,23,19,31,23,151,23,29,29,

%T 31,29,73,29,41,31,37,37,619,37,41,37,43,41,61,41,47,43,61,47,67,47,

%U 53,53,61,53,73,53,59,59,61,59,79,59,71,61,67,67,109,67,71,67,73,71,101,71,83

%N a(n) is the smallest prime whose base-n digits add up to a composite number.

%C Inspired by a homework problem in Crandall and Pomerance, Prime Numbers.

%e 23 = 10111 (base 2) and 1+1+1+1=4, 233 = 22122 (base 3) and 2+2+1+2+2=9, 337 = 1,12,12 (base 13) and 1+12+12=25.

%t f[n_] := Block[{p = PrimePi[n] + 1}, While[ PrimeQ[Plus @@ IntegerDigits[Prime[p], n]], p++ ]; Prime[p]]; Table[ f[n], {n, 2, 70}] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Aug 21 2004 *)

%K nonn,base

%O 2,1

%A _John L. Drost_, Aug 19 2004

%E More terms from _Robert G. Wilson v_, Aug 21 2004

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified April 18 04:56 EDT 2024. Contains 371767 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)