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A002385 Palindromic primes: prime numbers whose decimal expansion is a palindrome.

Original entry on oeis.org

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 313, 353, 373, 383, 727, 757, 787, 797, 919, 929, 10301, 10501, 10601, 11311, 11411, 12421, 12721, 12821, 13331, 13831, 13931, 14341, 14741, 15451, 15551, 16061, 16361, 16561, 16661, 17471, 17971, 18181, 18481, 19391, 19891, 19991
Offset: 1

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Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

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Comments

Every palindrome with an even number of digits is divisible by 11, so 11 is the only member of the sequence with an even number of digits. - David Wasserman, Sep 09 2004
This holds in any number base A006093(n), n>1. - Lekraj Beedassy, Mar 07 2005 and Dec 06 2009
The log-log plot shows the fairly regular structure of these numbers. - T. D. Noe, Jul 09 2013
Conjecture: The only primes with palindromic prime indices that are palindromic primes themselves are 3, 5 and 11. Tested for the primes with the first 8000000 palindromic prime indices. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Oct 10 2014
It follows from the above conjecture that 2 is the only k such that k, prime(k), prime(m) = k + prime(k) and m are all palindromic primes. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Mar 17 2025
Banks, Hart, and Sakata derive a nontrivial upper bound for the number of prime palindromes n <= x as x -> oo. It follows that almost all palindromes are composite. The results hold in any base. The authors use Weil's bound for Kloosterman sums. - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 02 2018
Number of terms < 100^k, k >= 1: 5, 20, 113, 781, 5953, 47995, 401698, .... - Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 03 2018, corrected by M. F. Hasler, Dec 19 2024
Initially the above comment listed 4, 20, 113, ... which is the number of terms less than 10, 1000, 10^5, ..., i.e., up to 10^(2k-1), k >= 1. The number of terms < 10^k are the cumulative sums of A016115(n) (number of prime palindromes with n digits) up to n = k. - M. F. Hasler, Dec 19 2024

References

  • A. H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 228.
  • Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Bigger Primes, Springer-Verlag NY 2004. See pp. 120-121.
  • N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
  • N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

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Crossrefs

A007500 = this sequence union A006567.
Subsequence of A188650; A188649(a(n)) = a(n); see A033620 for multiplicative closure. [Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 11 2011]
Cf. A016041, A029732, A069469, A117697, A046942, A032350 (Palindromic nonprime numbers).
Cf. A016115 (number of prime palindromes with n digits).

Programs

  • GAP
    Filtered([1..20000],n->IsPrime(n) and ListOfDigits(n)=Reversed(ListOfDigits(n))); # Muniru A Asiru, Mar 08 2019
  • Haskell
    a002385 n = a002385_list !! (n-1)
a002385_list = filter ((== 1) . a136522) a000040_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 11 2011
  • Maple
    ff := proc(n) local i,j,k,s,aa,nn,bb,flag; s := n; aa := convert(s,string); nn := length(aa); bb := ``; for i from nn by -1 to 1 do bb := cat(bb,substring(aa,i..i)); od; flag := 0; for j from 1 to nn do if substring(aa,j..j)<>substring(bb,j..j) then flag := 1 fi; od; RETURN(flag); end; gg := proc(i) if ff(ithprime(i)) = 0 then RETURN(ithprime(i)) fi end;
rev:=proc(n) local nn, nnn: nn:=convert(n,base,10): add(nn[nops(nn)+1-j]*10^(j-1),j=1..nops(nn)) end: a:=proc(n) if n=rev(n) and isprime(n)=true then n else fi end: seq(a(n),n=1..20000); # rev is a Maple program to revert a number - Emeric Deutsch, Mar 25 2007
# A002385 Gets all base-10 palindromic primes with exactly d digits, in the list "Res"
d:=7; # (say)
if d=1 then Res:= [2,3,5,7]:
elif d=2 then Res:= [11]:
elif d::even then
    Res:=[]:
else
    m:= (d-1)/2:
    Res2 := [seq(seq(n*10^(m+1)+y*10^m+digrev(n), y=0..9), n=10^(m-1)..10^m-1)]:
    Res:=[]: for x in Res2 do if isprime(x) then Res:=[op(Res),x]; fi: od:
fi:
Res; # N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 18 2015
  • Mathematica
    Select[ Prime[ Range[2100] ], IntegerDigits[#] == Reverse[ IntegerDigits[#] ] & ]
lst = {}; e = 3; Do[p = n*10^(IntegerLength[n] - 1) + FromDigits@Rest@Reverse@IntegerDigits[n]; If[PrimeQ[p], AppendTo[lst, p]], {n, 10^e - 1}]; Insert[lst, 11, 5] (* Arkadiusz Wesolowski, May 04 2012 *)
Join[{2,3,5,7,11},Flatten[Table[Select[Prime[Range[PrimePi[ 10^(2n)]+1, PrimePi[ 10^(2n+1)]]],# == IntegerReverse[#]&],{n,3}]]] (* The program uses the IntegerReverse function from Mathematica version 10 *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 22 2016 *)
genPal[n_Integer, base_Integer: 10] := Block[{id = IntegerDigits[n, base], insert = Join[{{}}, {# - 1} & /@ Range[base]]}, FromDigits[#, base] & /@ (Join[id, #, Reverse@id] & /@ insert)]; k = 1; lst = {2, 3, 5, 7}; While[k < 19, p = Select[genPal[k], PrimeQ];
If[p != {}, AppendTo[lst, p]]; k++]; Flatten@ lst (* RGWv *)
Select[ Prime[ Range[2100]], PalindromeQ] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 17 2018 *)
NestList[NestWhile[NextPrime, #, ! PalindromeQ[#2] &, 2] &, 2, 41] (* Jan Mangaldan, Jul 01 2020 *)
  • PARI
    is(n)=n==eval(concat(Vecrev(Str(n))))&&isprime(n) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 20 2012
  • PARI
    forprime(p=2,10^5, my(d=digits(p,10)); if(d==Vecrev(d),print1(p,", "))); \\ Joerg Arndt, Aug 17 2014
  • PARI
    A002385_row(n)=select(is_A002113, primes([10^(n-1),10^n])) \\ Terms with n digits. For larger n, better filter primes in palindromes. - M. F. Hasler, Dec 19 2024
  • Python
    from itertools import chain
from sympy import isprime
A002385 = sorted((n for n in chain((int(str(x)+str(x)[::-1]) for x in range(1,10**5)),(int(str(x)+str(x)[-2::-1]) for x in range(1,10**5))) if isprime(n))) # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 16 2014
  • Python
    from sympy import isprime
A002385 = [*filter(isprime, (int(str(x) + str(x)[-2::-1]) for x in range(10**5)))]
A002385.insert(4, 11)  # Yunhan Shi, Mar 03 2023
  • Python
    from sympy import isprime
from itertools import count, islice, product
def A002385gen(): # generator of palprimes
    yield from [2, 3, 5, 7, 11]
    for d in count(3, 2):
        for last in "1379":
            for p in product("0123456789", repeat=d//2-1):
                left = "".join(p)
                for mid in [[""], "0123456789"][d&1]:
                    t = int(last + left + mid + left[::-1] + last)
                    if isprime(t):
                        yield t
print(list(islice(A002385gen(), 46))) # Michael S. Branicky, Apr 13 2025
  • Sage
    [n for n in (2..18181) if is_prime(n) and Word(n.digits()).is_palindrome()] # Peter Luschny, Sep 13 2018

Formula

Intersection of A000040 (primes) and A002113 (palindromes).
A010051(a(n)) * A136522(a(n)) = 1. [Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 11 2011]
Complement of A032350 in A002113. - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 02 2018

Extensions

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Oct 25 2000
Comment from A006093 moved here by Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Dec 03 2009

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