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A227919
Primes which remain prime when rightmost digit is removed.
9
23, 29, 31, 37, 53, 59, 71, 73, 79, 113, 131, 137, 139, 173, 179, 191, 193, 197, 199, 233, 239, 293, 311, 313, 317, 373, 379, 419, 431, 433, 439, 479, 593, 599, 613, 617, 619, 673, 677, 719, 733, 739, 797, 839, 971, 977, 1013, 1019, 1031, 1033, 1039, 1091, 1093
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
After a(2), all the terms in this sequence have second digit from right 1, 3, 7, or 9.
LINKS
EXAMPLE
a(7)= 71 which is prime. Removing the rightmost digit gives 7, which is also prime.
a(16)= 191 which is prime. Removing the rightmost digit gives 19, which is also prime.
MAPLE
KD:= proc() local a, b; a:= ithprime(n); b:=floor(a/10); if isprime(b) then return (a) :fi; end: seq(KD(), n=1..1000);
PROG
(PARI) is(n)=isprime(n) && isprime(n\10) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 12 2013
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000040 (prime numbers), A024770 (right-truncatable primes).
Cf. A052025 (palindromic prime is prime right- or left-truncatable).
Cf. A137812 (left- or right-truncatable primes).
Sequence in context: A112681 A078500 A155913 * A240898 A244077 A277206
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
K. D. Bajpai, Oct 10 2013
STATUS
approved