OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
M. Krizek, F. Luca, L. Somer, 17 Lectures on Fermat Numbers: From Number Theory to Geometry, CMS Books in Mathematics, vol. 9, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, pp. 72-73.
LINKS
Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..64
Chris Caldwell, The Prime Glossary, Sierpinski number
W. Sierpiński, Sur un problème concernant les nombres k * 2^n + 1, Elem. Math., 15 (1960), pp. 73-74.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1).
FORMULA
a(n) = a(n-64) + 2*(2^64-1) for n > 64.
PROG
(Magma) lst:=[]; e:=2^64; P:=PrimeDivisors(e-1); C:=[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 33]; Pr:=&*[P[i]: i in [1..#P]]; S:=CRT([Modexp(2, C[i], P[i]): i in [1..#C]], P); for t in [1..33] do a:=S+Pr; g:=Gcd(a, e); S:=Floor(a/g); Append(~lst, S); end for; Sort(lst)[1..12];
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Mar 14 2016
STATUS
approved