OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Also, numbers k such that 12^k-1 is a semiprime. - Sean A. Irvine, Oct 16 2023
REFERENCES
J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1. Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2nd edition, 1985; and later supplements.
J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 109, p. 38, Ellipses, Paris 2008.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
P. Bourdelais, A Generalized Repunit Conjecture
J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.
H. Dubner, Generalized repunit primes, Math. Comp., 61 (1993), 927-930.
H. Dubner, Generalized repunit primes, Math. Comp., 61 (1993), 927-930. [Annotated scanned copy]
H. Lifchitz, Mersenne and Fermat primes field
S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Repunit
MATHEMATICA
lst={}; Do[If[PrimeQ[(12^n-1)/11], Print[n]; AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 10^5}]; lst (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Aug 21 2008 *)
PROG
(PARI) is(n)=ispseudoprime((12^n-1)/11) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 29 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,changed
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(11) from Paul Bourdelais, Aug 03 2007
One more term from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Jan 05 2008
a(13)=46889, discovered Sep 10 2008 by Paul Bourdelais, corresponds to a probable prime based on trial factoring to 10^13 and Fermat base 2 primality test. - Paul Bourdelais, Sep 11 2008
a(14)=769543 corresponds to a probable prime discovered by Paul Bourdelais, Dec 05 2014
STATUS
approved