A118813 Primes of the form (2n)! - n! - 1.

3628679, 87178286159, 20922789847679, 265252859812191058635000805631999

Offset

1,1

Comments

The term a(7) (2407 digits) is too large to include even in the b-file.

All the numbers end in 9.

For all n, (2n)! - n! - 1 has exactly A027868(n) trailing 9s. - Rick L. Shepherd, Feb 16 2014

Generated by n = 5, 7, 8, 15, 103, 179, .... - R. J. Mathar, Sep 20 2012 (now A238011)

References

G. Balzarotti and P. P. Lava, Le sequenze di numeri interi, Hoepli, 2008, p. 159.

Links

Rick L. Shepherd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..6

Example

For n=5, (2*5)! - 5! - 1 = 3628800 - 120 - 1 = 3628679, which is prime.

Maple

PFACT:=proc(N) local i, r; for i from 1 by 1 to N do r:=(2*i)!-i!-1; if isprime(r) then print(i); fi; od; end: PFACT(100);

Crossrefs

Cf. A238011 (corresponding n), A118812, A237443.

Sequence in context: A252499 A235970 A116221 * A127229 A269128 A068158

Adjacent sequences: A118810 A118811 A118812 * A118814 A118815 A118816

Keyword

nonn

Author

Paolo P. Lava and Giorgio Balzarotti, May 23 2006

Status

approved