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A101727

Indices of primes in sequence defined by A(0) = 47, A(n) = 10*A(n-1) - 13 for n > 0.

0, 1, 3, 4, 12, 21, 24, 27, 37, 66, 141, 283, 294, 379, 396, 1216, 1639, 2884, 3285, 7734, 29305

OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Numbers n such that (410*10^n + 13)/9 is prime.

Numbers n such that digit 4 followed by n >= 0 occurrences of digit 5 followed by digit 7 is prime.

Numbers corresponding to terms <= 396 are certified primes.

a(22) > 10^5. - Robert Price, May 22 2015

REFERENCES

Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp, Zahlenfolgen mit homogenem Ziffernkern, MNU 59/8 (2006), pp. 462-467.

LINKS

FORMULA

a(n) = A102992(n) - 1.

EXAMPLE

457 is prime, hence 1 is a term.

MATHEMATICA

Select[Range[0, 1000], PrimeQ[(410*10^# + 13)/9] &] (* Robert Price, May 22 2015 *)

PROG

(PARI) a=47; for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime(a), print1(n, ", ")); a=10*a-13)

(PARI) for(n=0, 1500, if(isprime((410*10^n+13)/9), print1(n, ", ")))

CROSSREFS

KEYWORD

nonn,hard,more

AUTHOR

Klaus Brockhaus and Walter Oberschelp (oberschelp(AT)informatik.rwth-aachen.de), Dec 14 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 02 2008

a(21) from Kamada data by Ray Chandler, Apr 30 2015

STATUS

approved

URL: https://oeis.org/A101727