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A215419
Primes that remain prime when a single digit 3 is inserted between any two consecutive digits or as the leading or trailing digit.
25
7, 11, 17, 31, 37, 73, 271, 331, 359, 373, 673, 733, 1033, 2297, 3119, 3461, 3923, 5323, 5381, 5419, 6073, 6353, 9103, 9887, 18289, 23549, 25349, 31333, 32933, 33349, 35747, 37339, 37361, 37489, 47533, 84299, 92333, 93241, 95093, 98491, 133733, 136333, 139333
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
EXAMPLE
18289 is prime and also 182893, 182839, 182389, 183289, 138289, 318289.
MAPLE
filter:= proc(n) local L, d, k, M;
if not isprime(n) then return false fi;
L:= convert(n, base, 10);
d:= nops(L);
for k from 0 to d do
M:= [seq(L[i], i=1..k), 3, seq(L[i], i=k+1..d)];
if not isprime(add(M[i]*10^(i-1), i=1..d+1)) then return false fi;
od;
true
end proc;
select(filter, [seq(i, i=3..2*10^5, 2)]); # Robert Israel, Oct 09 2017
MATHEMATICA
ins@n_:=Insert[IntegerDigits@n, 3, #]&/@Range@(IntegerLength@n+1);
Cases[{#, FromDigits@#&/@ins@#}&/@ Cases[Range[11, 70000], _?PrimeQ], {_, {_?PrimeQ..}}][[All, 1]] (* Hans Rudolf Widmer, Dec 21 2023 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Paolo P. Lava, Aug 10 2012
STATUS
approved