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A002386 Increasing gaps between primes (lower end): primes p(k) where p(k+1)-p(k) exceeds p(j+1)-p(j) for all j<k.
(Formerly M0858 N0327)
+0
26
2, 3, 7, 23, 89, 113, 523, 887, 1129, 1327, 9551, 15683, 19609, 31397, 155921, 360653, 370261, 492113, 1349533, 1357201, 2010733, 4652353, 17051707, 20831323, 47326693, 122164747, 189695659, 191912783, 387096133, 436273009, 1294268491 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

See the links by Jens Kruse Andersen et al. for very large gaps.

REFERENCES

B. C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Notebooks Part IV, Springer-Verlag, see p. 133.

D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, Vol. 3, Sect 6.1, Table 1.

M. Kraitchik, Recherches sur la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, Vol. 1, 1924, Vol. 2, 1929, see Vol. 1, p. 14.

T. R. Nicely: New maximal prime gaps and first occurrences, Math. Comput. 68,227 (1999) 1311-1315.

D. Shanks, On maximal gaps between successive primes, Math. Comp., 18 (1964), 646-651.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

J. Young and A. Potler, First occurrence prime gaps, Math. Comp., 52 (1989), 221-224.

LINKS

M. F. Hasler and N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..74 (from the web page of Tomas Oliveira e Silva)

Jens Kruse Andersen, The Top-20 Prime Gaps

Jens Kruse Andersen, New record prime gap

Jens Kruse Andersen, Maximal gaps

T. R. Nicely, List of prime gaps

Tomas Oliveira e Silva, Gaps between consecutive primes

Hans Rosenthal and Jens Kruse Andersen, A prime megagap

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Gaps

Index entries for primes, gaps between

FORMULA

a(n)=A000101(n)-A005250(n)=A008950(n-1)-1 - M. F. Hasler (Maximilian.Hasler(AT)gmail.com), Dec 13 2007

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=local(p, g); if(n<2, 2*(n>0), p=a(n-1); g=nextprime(p+1)-p; while(p=nextprime(p+1), if(nextprime(p+1)-p>g, break)); p) - Michael Somos Feb 07 2004

(PARI) p=q=2; g=0; until( g<(q=nextprime(1+p=q))-p & print1(q-g=q-p, ", "), ) \\ - M. F. Hasler, Dec 13 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001223, A000101 (upper ends), A005250 (record gaps), A000230.

Sequence in context: A088173 A129739 A163834 this_sequence A000230 A133429 A087770

Adjacent sequences: A002383 A002384 A002385 this_sequence A002387 A002388 A002389

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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