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Primes of the form n^2 + n + 712329866165608771.
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%I #13 Sep 08 2022 08:46:11

%S 712329866165608783,712329866165608813,712329866165609323,

%T 712329866165609371,712329866165610103,712329866165611741,

%U 712329866165612077,712329866165612677,712329866165612803,712329866165614933,712329866165621653,712329866165624023

%N Primes of the form n^2 + n + 712329866165608771.

%C From Mollin's paper: "x^2 + x + A with A=712329866165608771 has the largest asymptotic density of primes for any polynomial of this type to date" (1997).

%C Is it still so?

%H R. A. Mollin, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2975080">Prime-producing quadratics</a>, Amer. Math. Monthly 104 (1997), page 542.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral#Hardy_and_Littlewood.27s_Conjecture_F">Hardy and Littlewood's Conjecture F</a>

%t Select[Table[n^2 + n + 712329866165608771, {n, 1, 200}], PrimeQ]

%o (Magma) [a: n in [1..200] | IsPrime(a) where a is n^2 + n + 712329866165608771];

%o (PARI) for(n=1,100,if(isprime(k=n^2+n+712329866165608771),print1(k,", "))) \\ _Derek Orr_, Apr 05 2015

%Y Cf. A256674 (associated n).

%K nonn,easy

%O 1,1

%A _Vincenzo Librandi_, Apr 05 2015