OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Note that k must be even.
a(13) > 10^5. - Michael S. Branicky, Dec 14 2024
REFERENCES
Joao Carlos Leandro da Silva, The Rainbow of Primes, Freund Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 2009.
EXAMPLE
For k=2 we obtain f(2) = 3^2 + 5^2 + 7^2 = 83 which is a prime.
MAPLE
A160773:=n->`if`(isprime(3^n+5^n+7^n), n, NULL): seq(A160773(n), n=0..1000); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 19 2014
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[0, 1000], PrimeQ[3^# + 5^# + 7^#] &] (* Wesley Ivan Hurt, Sep 19 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) isok(n) = isprime(3^n + 5^n + 7^n) \\ Michel Marcus, Jul 25 2013
(Python)
def A160773_gen(): # generator of terms
p3, p5, p7 = [1]*3
for k in count(0):
if isprime(p3+p5+p7): yield k
p3 *= 3
p5 *= 5
p7 *= 7
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nice,nonn,more
AUTHOR
Joao Carlos Leandro da Silva (zxawyh66(AT)yahoo.com), May 26 2009, Jun 01 2009
EXTENSIONS
Zero added by Zak Seidov, Oct 10 2009
STATUS
approved