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A052080 Concatenation of n consecutive descending numbers starting from a(n) produces the smallest possible prime of this form, 0 if no such prime exists.

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%I A052080 #22 Mar 04 2021 04:39:43
%S A052080 2,4,0,10,7,0,73,46,0,56,219,0,25,60,0,52,117,0,535,172,0
%N A052080 Concatenation of n consecutive descending numbers starting from a(n) produces the smallest possible prime of this form, 0 if no such prime exists.
%C A052080 First hard cases occur for n = 22, 88 and 110.
%C A052080 a(22) = 10^1631 + 10 was found by _James G. Merickel_ in Feb 2011.
%C A052080 a(88) = 10^14 + 6.
%C A052080 a(110) = 10^19 + 26 was found by Chris Nash.
%H A052080 C. Rivera, <a href="http://www.primepuzzles.net/puzzles/puzz_078.htm">Prime Puzzle 78</a>
%e A052080 For n = 8 we have a(8) = 46 so the eight consecutive descending numbers 46,45,44,43,42,41,40 and 39 concatenated together gives the smallest possible prime of this form, 4645444342414039.
%Y A052080 Cf. A052077, A052078, A052079.
%K A052080 nonn,base,hard
%O A052080 1,1
%A A052080 _Patrick De Geest_, Jan 15 2000
%E A052080 Terms a(7)-a(21) calculated by _Carlos Rivera_ and _Felice Russo_