A034876 -id:A034876 - cp's OEIS frontend

A000668 Mersenne primes (primes of the form 2^n - 1).

3, 7, 31, 127, 8191, 131071, 524287, 2147483647, 2305843009213693951, 618970019642690137449562111, 162259276829213363391578010288127, 170141183460469231731687303715884105727

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

For a Mersenne number 2^n - 1 to be prime, the exponent n must itself be prime.
See A000043 for the values of n.
Primes that are repunits in base 2.
Define f(k) = 2k+1; begin with k = 2, a(n+1) = least prime of the form f(f(f(...(a(n))))). - Amarnath Murthy, Dec 26 2003
Mersenne primes other than the first are of the form 6n+1. - Lekraj Beedassy, Aug 27 2004. Mersenne primes other than the first are of the form 24n+7; see also A124477. - Artur Jasinski, Nov 25 2007
A034876(a(n)) = 0 and A034876(a(n)+1) = 1. - Jonathan Sondow, Dec 19 2004
Mersenne primes are solutions to sigma(n+1)-sigma(n) = n as perfect numbers (A000396(n)) are solutions to sigma(n) = 2n. In fact, appears to give all n such that sigma(n+1)-sigma(n) = n. - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 27 2002
If n is in the sequence then sigma(sigma(n)) = 2n+1. Is it true that this sequence gives all numbers n such that sigma(sigma(n)) = 2n+1? - Farideh Firoozbakht, Aug 19 2005
It is easily proved that if n is a Mersenne prime then sigma(sigma(n)) - sigma(n) = n. Is it true that Mersenne primes are all the solutions of the equation sigma(sigma(x)) - sigma(x) = x? - Farideh Firoozbakht, Feb 12 2008
Sum of divisors of n-th even superperfect number A061652(n). Sum of divisors of n-th superperfect number A019279(n), if there are no odd superperfect numbers. - Omar E. Pol, Mar 11 2008
Indices of both triangular numbers and generalized hexagonal numbers (A000217) that are also even perfect numbers. - Omar E. Pol, May 10 2008, Sep 22 2013
Number of positive integers (1, 2, 3, ...) whose sum is the n-th perfect number A000396(n). - Omar E. Pol, May 10 2008
Vertex number where the n-th perfect number A000396(n) is located in the square spiral whose vertices are the positive triangular numbers A000217. - Omar E. Pol, May 10 2008
Mersenne numbers A000225 whose indices are the prime numbers A000043. - Omar E. Pol, Aug 31 2008
The digital roots are 1 if p == 1 (mod 6) and 4 if p == 5 (mod 6). [T. Koshy, Math Gaz. 89 (2005) p. 465]
Primes p such that for all primes q < p, p XOR q = p - q. - Brad Clardy, Oct 26 2011
All these primes, except 3, are Brazilian primes, so they are also in A085104 and A023195. - Bernard Schott, Dec 26 2012
All prime numbers p can be classified by k = (p mod 12) into four classes: k=1, 5, 7, 11. The Mersennne prime numbers 2^p-1, p > 2 are in the class k=7 with p=12*(n-1)+7, n=1,2,.... As all 2^p (p odd) are in class k=8 it follows that all 2^p-1, p > 2 are in class k=7. - Freimut Marschner, Jul 27 2013
From "The Guinness Book of Primes": "During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the largest known prime number was the number of grains of rice on the chessboard up to and including the nineteenth square: 524,287 [= 2^19 - 1]. By the time Lord Nelson was fighting the Battle of Trafalgar, the record for the largest prime had gone up to the thirty-first square of the chessboard: 2,147,483,647 [= 2^31 - 1]. This ten-digits number was proved to be prime in 1772 by the Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler, and it held the record until 1867." [du Sautoy] - Robert G. Wilson v, Nov 26 2013
If n is in the sequence then A024816(n) = antisigma(n) = antisigma(n+1) - 1. Is it true that this sequence gives all numbers n such that antisigma(n) = antisigma(n+1) - 1? Are there composite numbers with this property? - Jaroslav Krizek, Jan 24 2014
If n is in the sequence then phi(n) + sigma(sigma(n)) = 3n. Is it true that Mersenne primes are all the solutions of the equation phi(x) + sigma(sigma(x)) = 3x? - Farideh Firoozbakht, Sep 03 2014
a(5) = A229381(2) = 8191 is the "Simpsons' Mersenne prime". - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 02 2015
Equivalently, prime powers of the form 2^n - 1, see Theorem 2 in Lemos & Cambraia Junior. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 07 2016
Primes whose sum of divisors is a power of 2. Primes p such that p + 1 is a power of 2. Primes in A046528. - Omar E. Pol, Jul 09 2016
From Jaroslav Krizek, Jan 19 2017: (Start)
Primes p such that sigma(p+1) = 2p+1.
Primes p such that A051027(p) = sigma(sigma(p)) = 2^k-1 for some k > 1.
Primes p of the form sigma(2^prime(n)-1)-1 for some n. Corresponding values of numbers n are in A016027.
Primes p of the form sigma(2^(n-1)) for some n > 1. Corresponding values of numbers n are in A000043 (Mersenne exponents).
Primes of the form sigma(2^(n+1)) for some n > 1. Corresponding values of numbers n are in A153798 (Mersenne exponents-2).
Primes p of the form sigma(n) where n is even; subsequence of A023195. Primes p of the form sigma(n) for some n. Conjecture: 31 is the only prime p such that p = sigma(x) = sigma(y) for distinct numbers x and y; 31 = sigma(16) = sigma(25).
Conjecture: numbers n such that n = sigma(sigma(n+1)-n-1)-1, i.e., A072868(n)-1.
Conjecture: primes of the form sigma(4*(n-1)) for some n. Corresponding values of numbers n are in A281312. (End)
[Conjecture] For n > 2, the Mersenne number M(n) = 2^n - 1 is a prime if and only if 3^M(n-1) == -1 (mod M(n)). - Thomas Ordowski, Aug 12 2018 [This needs proof! - Joerg Arndt, Mar 31 2019]
Named "Mersenne's numbers" by W. W. Rouse Ball (1892, 1912) after Marin Mersenne (1588-1648). - Amiram Eldar, Feb 20 2021
Theorem. Let b = 2^p - 1 (where p is a prime). Then b is a Mersenne prime iff (c = 2^p - 2 is totient or a term of A002202). Otherwise, if c is (nontotient or a term of A005277) then b is composite. Proof. Trivial, since, while b = v^g - 1 where v is even, v > 2, g is an integer, g > 1, b is always composite, and c = v^g - 2 is nontotient (or a term of A005277), and so is for any composite b = 2^g - 1 (in the last case, c = v^g - 2 is also nontotient, or a term of A005277). - Sergey Pavlov, Aug 30 2021 [Disclaimer: This proof has not been checked. - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 01 2021]

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Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..18
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Cf. A000225 (Mersenne numbers).
Cf. A000043 (Mersenne exponents).
Cf. A001348 (Mersenne numbers with n prime).
Cf. A000040, A000203, A000217, A000396, A003056, A007947, A016027, A019279, A023195, A023758, A028335 (lengths), A034876, A046051, A057951-A057958, A059305, A061652, A083420, A085104, A124477, A135659, A173898.

A000668:=Filtered(List(Filtered([1..600], IsPrime),i->2^i-1),IsPrime); # Muniru A Asiru, Oct 01 2017

A000668 := proc(n) local i;
i := 2^(ithprime(n))-1:
if (isprime(i)) then
   return i
fi: end:
seq(A000668(n), n=1..31); # Jani Melik, Feb 09 2011
# Alternate:
seq(numtheory:-mersenne([i]),i=1..26); # Robert Israel, Jul 13 2014

2^Array[MersennePrimeExponent, 18] - 1 (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 17 2018, Mersenne primes with less than 1000 digits *)
2^MersennePrimeExponent[Range[18]] - 1 (* Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 04 2021 *)

forprime(p=2,1e5,if(ispseudoprime(2^p-1),print1(2^p-1", "))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 15 2011

LL(e) = my(n, h); n = 2^e-1; h = Mod(2, n); for (k=1, e-2, h=2*h*h-1); return(0==h) \\ after Joerg Arndt in A000043
forprime(p=1, , if(LL(p), print1(p, ", "))) \\ Felix Fröhlich, Feb 17 2018

from sympy import isprime, primerange
print([2**n-1 for n in primerange(1, 1001) if isprime(2**n-1)]) # Karl V. Keller, Jr., Jul 16 2020

a(n) = sigma(A061652(n)) = A000203(A061652(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Apr 15 2008
a(n) = sigma(A019279(n)) = A000203(A019279(n)), provided that there are no odd superperfect numbers. - Omar E. Pol, May 10 2008
a(n) = A000225(A000043(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Aug 31 2008
a(n) = 2^A000043(n) - 1 = 2^(A000005(A061652(n))) - 1. - Omar E. Pol, Oct 27 2011
a(n) = A000040(A059305(n)) = A001348(A016027(n)). - Omar E. Pol, Jun 29 2012
a(n) = A007947(A000396(n))/2, provided that there are no odd perfect numbers. - Omar E. Pol, Feb 01 2013
a(n) = 4*A134709(n) + 3. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Sep 07 2013
a(n) = A003056(A000396(n)), provided that there are no odd perfect numbers. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 19 2016
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = A173898. - Amiram Eldar, Feb 20 2021

A115627 Irregular triangle read by rows: T(n,k) = multiplicity of prime(k) as a divisor of n!.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 7, 2, 1, 1, 7, 4, 1, 1, 8, 4, 2, 1, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1, 10, 5, 2, 1, 1, 10, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 11, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 11, 6, 3, 2, 1, 1, 15, 6, 3, 2, 1, 1, 15, 6, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 16, 8, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 16, 8, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1

Offset: 2

Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jan 26 2006

The factorization of n! is n! = 2^T(n,1)*3^T(n,2)*...*p_(pi(n))^T(n,pi(n)) where p_k = k-th prime, pi(n) = A000720(n).
Nonzero terms of A085604; T(n,k) = A085604(n,k), k = 1..A000720(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 01 2013
For n=2, 3, 4 and 5, all terms of the n-th row are odd. Are there other such rows? - Michel Marcus, Nov 11 2018
From Gus Wiseman, May 15 2019: (Start)
Differences between successive rows are A067255, so row n is the sum of the first n row-vectors of A067255 (padded with zeros on the right so that all n row-vectors have length A000720(n)). For example, the first 10 rows of A067255 are
  {}
  1
  0 1
  2 0
  0 0 1
  1 1 0
  0 0 0 1
  3 0 0 0
  0 2 0 0
  1 0 1 0
with column sums (8,4,2,1), which is row 10.
(End)
For all prime p > 7, 3*p > 2*nextprime(p), so for any n > 21 there will always be a prime p dividing n! with exponent 2 and there are no further rows with all entries odd. - Charlie Neder, Jun 03 2019

			From _Gus Wiseman_, May 09 2019: (Start)
Triangle begins:
   1
   1  1
   3  1
   3  1  1
   4  2  1
   4  2  1  1
   7  2  1  1
   7  4  1  1
   8  4  2  1
   8  4  2  1  1
  10  5  2  1  1
  10  5  2  1  1  1
  11  5  2  2  1  1
  11  6  3  2  1  1
  15  6  3  2  1  1
  15  6  3  2  1  1  1
  16  8  3  2  1  1  1
  16  8  3  2  1  1  1  1
  18  8  4  2  1  1  1  1
(End)
m such that 5^m||101!: floor(log(101)/log(5)) = 2 terms. floor(101/5) = 20. floor(20/5) = 4. So m = u_1 + u_2 = 20 + 4 = 24. - _David A. Corneth_, Jun 22 2014

T. D. Noe, Rows n = 2..300, flattened
H. T. Davis, Tables of the Mathematical Functions, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed., 1963, Vol. 3 (with V. J. Fisher), 1962; Principia Press of Trinity Univ., San Antonio, TX. [Annotated scan of pages 204-208 of Volume 2.] See Table 2 on page 206.
Wenguang Zhai, On the prime power factorization of n!, Journal of Number Theory, Volume 129, Issue 8, August 2009, pages 1820-1836.
Index entries for sequences related to factorial numbers

Row lengths are A000720.
Row-sums are A022559.
Row-products are A135291.
Row maxima are A011371.
Columns include A011371, A054861, A027868, A054896, A090617, A064458, A090620.
Cf. A090622, A090623, A000142, A115628.
Cf. A085604, A141809.
Cf. A034876, A067255, A071626, A076934, A322583, A325272, A325273, A325276, A325508, A325509.

a115627 n k = a115627_tabf !! (n-2) !! (k-1)
a115627_row = map a100995 . a141809_row . a000142
a115627_tabf = map a115627_row [2..]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 01 2013

A115627 := proc(n,k) local d,p; p := ithprime(k) ; n-add(d,d=convert(n,base,p)) ; %/(p-1) ; end proc: # R. J. Mathar, Oct 29 2010

Flatten[Table[Transpose[FactorInteger[n!]][[2]], {n, 2, 20}]] (* T. D. Noe, Apr 10 2012 *)
T[n_, k_] := Module[{p, jm}, p = Prime[k]; jm = Floor[Log[p, n]]; Sum[Floor[n/p^j], {j, 1, jm}]]; Table[Table[T[n, k], {k, 1, PrimePi[n]}], {n, 2, 20}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 23 2015 *)

a(n)=my(i=2);while(n-primepi(i)>1,n-=primepi(i);i++);p=prime(n-1);sum(j=1,log(i)\log(p),i\=p) \\ David A. Corneth, Jun 21 2014

T(n,k) = Sum_{i=1..inf} floor(n/(p_k)^i). (Although stated as an infinite sum, only finitely many terms are nonzero.)

T(n,k) = Sum_{i=1..floor(log(n)/log(p_k))} floor(u_i) where u_0 = n and u_(i+1) = floor((u_i)/p_k). - David A. Corneth, Jun 22 2014

A322583 a(n) is the number of factorizations of n into factorial numbers larger than one; a(1) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1

Offset: 1

Antti Karttunen, Dec 25 2018

nonn

Values 1..7 occur for the first time at n = 1, 24, 576, 13824, 69120, 414720, 1658880.

In range 1..69120 differs from A034876 only at positions n = 1, 2, 9, 10 and 16.

			a(4) = 1 because 4 = 2! * 2!.
a(24) = 2 because 24 = 4! = 3! * 2! * 2!.
a(576) = 3 because 576 = 4! * 4! = 4! * 3! * 2! * 2! = (3!)^2 * (2!)^4.
a(13824) = 4 because 13824 = (4!)^3 = (4!)^2 * 3! * (2!)^2 = 4! * (3!)^2 * (2!)^4 = (3!)^3 * (2!)^6.
a(69120) = 5 because 69120 = 6! * 4! * 2! * 2! = 6! * 3! * 2! * 2! * 2! * 2! = 5! * 3! * 3! * 2! * 2! * 2! * 2! = 5! * 4! * 4! = 5! * 4! * 3! * 2! * 2!. Note that 69120 < 24^4 = 331776.

Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..69120
Index entries for sequences related to factorial numbers

Cf. A000142, A001013 (positions of nonzero terms), A009968, A034876, A034968.

A322583(n, m=n) = if(1==n, 1, my(s=0); for(i=2, oo, my(f=i!); if(f>m, return(s)); if(!(n%f), s += A322583(n/f, f))));

A034968(n) = { my(s=0, b=2, d); while(n, d = (n%b); s += d; n = (n-d)/b; b++); (s); };
A322583(n, m=n) = if(1==n, 1, my(s=0); fordiv(n, d, if((d>1)&&(d<=m)&&(1==A034968(d)), s += A322583(n/d, d))); (s));

a(24^n) = a(A009968(n)) = n+1.

A173898 Decimal expansion of sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne primes.

Original entry on oeis.org

5, 1, 6, 4, 5, 4, 1, 7, 8, 9, 4, 0, 7, 8, 8, 5, 6, 5, 3, 3, 0, 4, 8, 7, 3, 4, 2, 9, 7, 1, 5, 2, 2, 8, 5, 8, 8, 1, 5, 9, 6, 8, 5, 5, 3, 4, 1, 5, 4, 1, 9, 7, 0, 1, 4, 4, 1, 9, 3, 1, 0, 6, 5, 2, 7, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 0, 1, 4, 4, 0, 2, 1, 2, 7, 2, 3, 4, 9, 9, 1, 5, 4, 8, 8, 3, 2, 9, 3, 6, 6, 6, 2, 1, 5, 3, 7, 4, 0, 3, 2, 4

Offset: 0

Jonathan Vos Post, Mar 01 2010

We know this a priori to be strictly less than the Erdős-Borwein constant (A065442), which Erdős (1948) showed to be irrational. This new constant would also seem to be irrational.

			Decimal expansion of (1/3) + (1/7) + (1/31) + (1/127) + (1/8191) + (1/131071) + (1/524287) + ... = .5164541789407885653304873429715228588159685534154197.
This has continued fraction expansion 0 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + 1/(14 + 1/(1 + ...)))) (see A209601).

Peter B. Borwein, On the Irrationality of Certain Series, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 112, 141-146, 1992.
Paul Erdős, On Arithmetical Properties of Lambert Series, J. Indian Math. Soc. 12, 63-66, 1948.
Yoshihiro Tanaka, On the Sum of Reciprocals of Mersenne Primes, American Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017), pp. 145-148.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Erdos-Borwein Constant.
Marek Wolf, Computer experiments with Mersenne primes, arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2412 [math.NT], 2011.

Cf. A209601, A000668, A065442 (decimal expansion of Erdos-Borwein constant), A000043, A001348, A046051, A057951-A057958, A034876, A124477, A135659, A019279, A061652, A000225.

Digits := 120 ; L := [ 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521, 607, 1279, 2203, 2281, 3217, 4253, 4423, 9689, 9941, 11213, 19937, 21701, 23209, 44497, 86243, 110503, 132049, 216091, 756839, 859433, 1257787, 1398269, 2976221, 3021377, 6972593, 13466917 ] ;
x := 0 ; for i from 1 to 30 do x := x+1.0/(2^op(i,L)-1 ); end do ;

RealDigits[Sum[1/(2^p - 1), {p, MersennePrimeExponent[Range[14]]}], 10, 100][[1]] (* Amiram Eldar, May 24 2020 *)

isM(p)=my(m=Mod(4,2^p-1));for(i=1,p-2,m=m^2-2);!m
s=1/3;forprime(p=3,default(realprecision)*log(10)\log(2), if(isM(p), s+=1./(2^p-1)));s \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 22 2012

Sum_{i>=1} 1/A000668(i).

Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 10 2012

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A000668 Mersenne primes (primes of the form 2^n - 1).

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A115627 Irregular triangle read by rows: T(n,k) = multiplicity of prime(k) as a divisor of n!.

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A322583 a(n) is the number of factorizations of n into factorial numbers larger than one; a(1) = 1.

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A173898 Decimal expansion of sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne primes.

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A325509 Number of factorizations of n! into factorial numbers > 1.

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A336496 Products of superfactorials (A000178).

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A336497 Numbers that cannot be written as a product of superfactorials A000178.

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