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Numbers k such that 2^k - 3 is prime.
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#74 by N. J. A. Sloane at Sat Feb 01 14:10:39 EST 2025
CROSSREFS

Cf. Sequences of numbers k such that 2^k - d is prime: A000043 (d=1), A050414 (d=3), A059608 (d=5), A059609 (d=7), A059610 (d=9), A096817 (d=11), A096818 (d=13), A059612 (d=15), A059611 (d=17), A096819 (d=19), A096820 (d=21), A057220 (d=23), A356826 (d=29).

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Mersenne exponents: primes p such that 2^p - 1 is prime. Then 2^p - 1 is called a Mersenne prime.
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#534 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 20:12:31 EST 2025
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#533 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 20:11:59 EST 2025
LINKS

David Wasserman, <a href="/A000043/b000043.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..48</a> [Updated by N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 06 2013, Alois P. Heinz, May 01 2014, Jan 11 2015, Dec 11 2016, Ivan Panchenko, Apr 07 2018, Apr 09 2018, Benjamin Przybocki, Jan 05 2022]

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Discussion
Fri Jan 31
20:12
N. J. A. Sloane: Deleted a misleading and unnecessary b-file.
#532 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 16:43:39 EST 2025
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#531 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 16:43:33 EST 2025
EXTENSIONS

As of Jan 31 2025, 48 terms are known, and are shown in the DATA section. Four additional numbers are known to be in the sequence, namely 74207281, 77232917, 82589933, and 136279841, but they may not be the next terms. See the GIMP website for the latest information. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 31 2025

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An example of a simple prime-generating algorithm similar to Rowland's (A106108) that is a particular instance of a more general algorithm (see comments).
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#19 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 13:43:03 EST 2025
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Numbers whose prime factorization has more Pythagorean prime factors than non-Pythagorean prime factors (including multiplicities).
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#6 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 13:42:02 EST 2025
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#5 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 13:41:43 EST 2025
NAME

Numbers whose prime factorization has more non-Pythagorean prime factors than non-Pythagorean prime factors (including multiplicities).

EXAMPLE

50 appears because 2*5*5 has 2 Pythagorean prime factors and but only 1 non-Pythagorean prime factor.

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Discussion
Fri Jan 31
13:42
N. J. A. Sloane: corrected defn
Irregular triangular array read by rows: (row 1) = (1); (row n+1) = inverse runlength sequence of row n, starting with 2 if r = 3k for some k, and 1 otherwise. See Comments.
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#4 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 13:40:19 EST 2025
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One of 3 limiting rows of the rectangular array A378282; this is the one that starts with 1,1,2,1,2.
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#8 by N. J. A. Sloane at Fri Jan 31 13:39:59 EST 2025
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