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A104199
Lower bound on a straddle prime pair.
0
3, 5, 7, 7, 7, 11, 13, 13, 13, 17, 19, 19, 19, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 31, 31, 31, 31, 31, 37, 37, 37, 41, 43, 43, 43, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 59, 61, 61, 61, 61, 61, 67, 67, 67, 71, 73, 73, 73, 73, 73, 79, 79, 79, 83, 83, 83, 83, 83, 89, 89, 89, 89, 89, 89, 89
OFFSET
4,1
COMMENTS
Straddle primes that occur only once on either side of the composite number are lower and upper twin primes respectively.
FORMULA
Straddle primes are the nearest primes preceding and following a composite number n.
EXAMPLE
The first straddle prime pair is 3 and 5 which straddle the composite number 4.
PROG
(PARI) strad(n) = { my(y, pp, np); for(x=1, n, y=composite(x); pp=precprime(y); np=nextprime(y); print1(pp", ") ) }
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A211517 A254935 A376760 * A103470 A316852 A357274
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Cino Hilliard, Mar 13 2005
STATUS
approved