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A076047 Primes which are the difference between two successive nontrivial prime powers (A025475).

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%I A076047 #8 Mar 31 2012 13:20:45
%S A076047 2,3,5,7,13,17,41,139,151,199,271,307,751,1217,3343,3617,4001,4241,
%T A076047 40841,97169,117017,203897,746153,123090449,137542193,256534591,
%U A076047 21249911167,88109383889,112332648583,85726065193313,226411321073393
%N A076047 Primes which are the difference between two successive nontrivial prime powers (A025475).
%C A076047 I have searched through prime powers up to 2^8532. It is very unlikely that there are any other values between the ones listed here, but no prime has been proved to be absent from this sequence. - _David Wasserman_, Mar 31 2005
%e A076047 3 = 128 - 125 = 2^7 - 5^3; 7 = 16 - 9 = 32768 - 32761; 17 = 49 - 32 = 81 - 64 = 529 - 512; 4241 = 528529 - 524288 = 727^2 - 2^19.
%t A076047 pp = Sort[ Flatten[ Table[ Prime[n]^i, {n, 1, PrimePi[ Sqrt[10^16]]}, {i, 1, Log[ Prime[n], 10^16]}]]]; l = Length[pp]; d = Sort[Take[pp, -l + 1] - Take[pp, l - 1]]; a = {}; Do[ If[ PrimeQ[ d[[n]]], a = Append[a, d[[n]]]], {n, 1, l - 1}]; Union[a] a = {}; Do[ If[ PrimeQ[ pp[[n + 1]] - pp[[n]]], a = Append[a, pp[[n + 1]] - pp[[n]]]], {n, 1, Length[pp] - 1}]; Union[a]
%Y A076047 Cf. A025475, A053810, A075308.
%K A076047 nonn
%O A076047 1,1
%A A076047 _Zak Seidov_ and _Robert G. Wilson v_, Oct 29 2002
%E A076047 More terms from _David Wasserman_, Mar 31 2005