OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
It is an open question whether all terms of this sequence are squarefree.
a(n) is the smallest x > 1 such that x^prime(n) == 1 (mod prime(i)) i=1,2,3,...,n-1. - Benoit Cloitre, May 30 2002
Numbers n such that n/phi(n-1) is a record. - Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Nov 22 2012
Nyblom (theorem 2.3) proves that this sequence contains no proper powers, e.g., is a subsequence of A007916. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 02 2016
It is an open question if there are an infinite number of prime Euclid numbers. - Mike Winkler, Feb 05 2017
These numbers are not pairwise relatively prime; the first example is gcd(a(7), a(17)) = 277. Also gcd(a(47), a(131)) = 1051, which is probably the second example (wrt. greater index which is here 131). It is easy to find other primes like 277 and 1051. - Jeppe Stig Nielsen, Mar 24 2017
REFERENCES
J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 211, p. 61, Ellipses, Paris 2008.
R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth and O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
F. Smarandache, Properties of numbers, Arizona State University Special Collections, 1973.
I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica, Addison-Wesley, 1991, sections 5.1 and 5.2.
S. Wagon, Mathematica in Action, Freeman, NY, 1991, p. 35.
LINKS
Derek Maciel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..348 (first 101 terms from T. D. Noe)
S. W. Golomb, The evidence for Fortune's conjecture, Math. Mag. 54 (1981), 209-210.
H. Ibstedt, A Few Smarandache Sequences, Smarandache Notions Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1-2-3, 1997, 170-183.
R. Mestrovic, Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of primes: a historical survey of its proofs (300 BC--2012) and another new proof, arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3670 [math.HO], 2012.
Hisanori Mishima, Factorizations of many number sequences
Michael A. Nyblom, On the construction of a family of almost power free sequences, Fibonacci Quart. 46/47 (2008/2009), no. 4, 366-368.
Shubhankar Paul, Ten Problems of Number Theory, International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR), ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-1, Issue-9, November 2013.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Euclid Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fortunate Prime
R. G. Wilson v, Explicit factorizations
FORMULA
a(n) = A002110(n) + 1.
EXAMPLE
It is a universal convention that an empty product is 1 (just as an empty sum is 0), and since this sequence has offset 0, the first term is 1+1 = 2. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 02 2015
MAPLE
with(numtheory): A006862 := proc(n) local i; if n=0 then 2 else 1+product('ithprime(i)', 'i'=1..n); fi; end;
# second Maple program:
a:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n=0, 2,
1+ithprime(n)*(a(n-1)-1))
end:
seq(a(n), n=0..20); # Alois P. Heinz, Feb 06 2021
MATHEMATICA
Table[Product[Prime[k], {k, 1, n}] + 1, {n, 1, 18}]
1 + FoldList[Times, 1, Prime@ Range@ 19] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 02 2015 and modified by Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 25 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=my(v=primes(n)); prod(i=1, #v, v[i])+1 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 20 2012
(Magma) [2] cat [&*PrimesUpTo(p)+1: p in PrimesUpTo(70)]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 03 2015
(Python)
from sympy import primorial
def A006862(n):
if n == 0: return 2
else: return 1 + primorial(n) # Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Aug 21 2024
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved