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A352973
Prime numbers p such that iterating the map m -> m^2 + 1 on p generates a number ending with p in binary format.
1
2, 5, 37, 421, 8101, 11771813, 10593030863298469, 17520588382079786917, 644709886888204541861, 126810635974586364597324276501890165253751178116964261, 281339171965861859345972453867311708147087370351598335047820025433137061
OFFSET
1,1
EXAMPLE
37 is a term because iterating the map on 37, which is '100101' in binary format, gives: 37 -> 1370 -> 1876901, which in binary format is '111001010001110100101' ending with '100101'.
PROG
(Python)
from sympy import isprime; R = []
for i in range(0, 1000):
t = 2**i; L = []
while t not in L: L.append(t); t = (t*t + 1) % 2**(i+1)
{R.append(j) for j in {L[-1], L[-2]} if j not in R and isprime(j)}
R.sort(); print(*R, sep = ', ')
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Ya-Ping Lu, Apr 13 2022
STATUS
approved