A230036 Numbers n such that (39^n + 1)/40 is prime.

3, 13, 149, 15377

Offset

1,1

Comments

All terms are primes.

a(5) > 10^5.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..4.

J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.

H. Dubner and T. Granlund, Primes of the Form (b^n+1)/(b+1), J. Integer Sequences, 3 (2000), #P00.2.7.

H. Lifchitz, Mersenne and Fermat primes field

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Repunit.

Mathematica

Do[ p=Prime[n]; If[ PrimeQ[ (39^p + 1)/40 ], Print[p] ], {n, 1, 9592} ]

Prog

(PARI) is(n)=ispseudoprime((39^n+1)/40) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 17 2017

Crossrefs

Cf. A000978 (numbers n such that (2^n + 1)/3 is prime).

Cf. A007658, A057171, A057172, A057173, A057175, A001562, A057177, A057178, A057179, A057180, A057181, A057182, A057183, A057184, A057185, A057186, A057187, A057188, A057189, A057190, A057191, A071380, A071381, A071382, A084741, A084742, A065507, A126659, A126856, A185240, A229145, A229524.

Sequence in context: A287029 A339025 A317074 * A014376 A224990 A065622

Adjacent sequences: A230033 A230034 A230035 * A230037 A230038 A230039

Keyword

hard,more,nonn

Author

Robert Price, Oct 05 2013

Status

approved