login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A175118
a(1)=2. a(n) = the smallest prime p > a(n-1) such that p-a(n-1)+1 is composite.
3
2, 5, 13, 37, 61, 109, 157, 181, 229, 263, 271, 347, 367, 401, 409, 433, 457, 491, 499, 523, 547, 571, 619, 643, 677, 691, 739, 773, 787, 811, 859, 883, 907, 941, 967, 991, 1039, 1063, 1087, 1151, 1171, 1289, 1297, 1321, 1439, 1447, 1471, 1613, 1621, 1669
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
A175119(n) = a(n+1) - a(n) + 1.
MATHEMATICA
a = 2; s = {a}; c = 1; lim = 50; While[c < m, p = NextPrime[a]; While[PrimeQ[p - a + 1], p = NextPrime[p]]; a = p; AppendTo[s, a]; c++]; s (* Zak Seidov, Nov 19 2012 *)
PROG
(Haskell)
a175118 n = a175118_list !! (n-1)
a175118_list = 2 : f 2 a000040_list where
f x ps = g $ dropWhile (<= x) ps where
g (q:qs) | a010051' (q - x + 1) == 1 = g qs
| otherwise = q : f q qs
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 20 2012
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Leroy Quet, Feb 14 2010
EXTENSIONS
Extended by Ray Chandler, Mar 10 2010
STATUS
approved