OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Cullen primes are prime numbers of the form k*2^k+1. This sequence is complete for all values of n up to 3500000.
LINKS
Ray Ballinger and Mark Rodenkirch, Cullen Primes: Definition and Status.
James Cullen, Question 15897, The Educational Times, Dec. 1905, p. 534.
Allan Cunningham and H. J. Woodall, Factorisation of Q=(2^q ± q) and (q*2^q ± 1), The Messenger of Mathematics, Vol. 47 (1917-18), pp. 1-38.
Wilfrid Keller, New Cullen Primes, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 64, No. 212 (Ocober 1995), pp. 1733-1741.
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
As the sixth Cullen prime, 18496*2^18496 + 1 = 1.311...*10^5572, is a 5573-digit number, we have a(6) = 5573.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
hard,nonn,base,more
AUTHOR
Ant King, Feb 09 2008
EXTENSIONS
a(15)-a(16) from Amiram Eldar, Oct 27 2024
STATUS
approved