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A269769 Numbers of the form p^k - k where p is a prime number and k > 1. 2
2, 5, 7, 12, 23, 24, 27, 47, 58, 77, 119, 121, 122, 167, 238, 248, 287, 340, 359, 503, 527, 621, 723, 839, 959, 1014, 1328, 1367, 1679, 1847, 2037, 2180, 2194, 2207, 2397, 2807, 3120, 3479, 3719, 4084, 4487, 4910, 5039, 5327, 6239, 6553, 6856, 6887, 7919, 8179 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Primes of the form p^k - k where p is prime are 2, 5, 7, 23, 47, 167, 359, 503, ...
Subsequence of A057897.
A182474 is a subsequence.
Up to 10^14 all the terms have a unique representation as p^k - k. - Giovanni Resta, Mar 21 2017
LINKS
EXAMPLE
2 is a term because 2 = 2^2 - 2.
5 is a term because 5 = 2^3 - 3.
7 is a term because 7 = 3^2 - 2.
12 is a term because 12 = 2^4 - 4.
121 is a term because 121 = 2^7 - 7.
MAPLE
N:= 10000: # to get all terms <= N
P:= select(isprime, [$1..floor((N+2)^(1/2))]):
S:= {}:
for k from 2 do
pmax:= floor((N+k)^(1/k));
if pmax < 2 then break fi;
S:= S union {seq(p^k-k, p = select(`<=`, P, pmax))};
od:
sort(convert(S, list)); # Robert Israel, Mar 21 2017
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A333068 A029938 A213044 * A230428 A071013 A114727
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Altug Alkan, Mar 04 2016
STATUS
approved

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