OFFSET
1,6
COMMENTS
Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 2.
We have verified this for n up to 10^8.
LINKS
Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..3000
Z.-W. Sun, Problems on combinatorial properties of primes, arXiv:1402.6641, 2014
EXAMPLE
a(6) = 2 since 6 = 1 + 5 = 2 + 4 with C(2*1, 1) + prime(5) = C(2*2, 2) + prime(4) = 13 prime.
a(9) = 1 since 9 = 2 + 7 with C(2*2, 2) + prime(7) = 6 + 17 = 23 prime.
MATHEMATICA
a[n_]:=Sum[If[PrimeQ[Binomial[2k, k]+Prime[n-k]], 1, 0], {k, 1, (n-1)/2}]
Table[a[n], {n, 1, 100}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Zhi-Wei Sun, Dec 05 2013
STATUS
approved