Search: id:A084746 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A084746 %S A084746 2,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,3,18,1,2,1,2,3,6,1,2,1,2,41,110,1,18,3,2,11,2,1,24,1, 2, %T A084746 3,2 %N A084746 Smallest k such that n^k - k is a prime, or 0 if no such number exists. %C A084746 Conjecture: no entry is zero. %C A084746 If n is odd, k=a(n) is even. If n is even, k=a(n) is odd. n and k=a(n) are coprime. - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Apr 02 2006 %C A084746 a(36)>30000 or 0. a(37)..a(46) = 2, 1, 8, 3, 24, 1, 2, 1, 514, 6737. %p A084746 a := proc(n) local k; k := 1; while not isprime(n^k-k) do k := k+1 od; k end: seq(a(n),n=2..35); %t A084746 f[n_] := Block[{k = 1}, If[OddQ[n], k++ ]; While[ ! PrimeQ[n^k - k], k += 2]; k]; Table[ f[n], {n, 3, 35}] %Y A084746 Cf. A084745. %Y A084746 Sequence in context: A053574 A065203 A029396 this_sequence A128259 A051194 A134838 %Y A084746 Adjacent sequences: A084743 A084744 A084745 this_sequence A084747 A084748 A084749 %K A084746 more,nonn %O A084746 2,1 %A A084746 Amarnath Murthy and Meenakshi Srikanth (amarnath_murthy(AT)yahoo.com), Jun 15 2003 %E A084746 Edited and extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Alec Mihailovs (Alec(AT)Mihailovs.com) and T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Jun 16 2003. %E A084746 Update on a(36) and a(46) from Max Alekseyev (maxale(AT)gmail.com), Apr 24 2009 Search completed in 0.001 seconds