A064812 Smallest prime p such that the infinite sequence {p, p'=2p-1, p''=2p'-1, ...} begins with a string of exactly n primes.
5, 3, 2, 2131, 1531, 33301, 16651, 15514861, 857095381, 205528443121, 1389122693971, 216857744866621, 758083947856951, 107588900851484911, 69257563144280941
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Examples
a(3) = 2 because 2 is the smallest prime such that the sequence {2, 3, 5, 9, ...} begins with exactly 3 primes, where each term in the sequence is twice the preceding term minus 1.
Links
- G. Löh, Long chains of nearly doubled primes, Math. Comp., 53 (1989), 751-759.
- Wikipedia, Cunningham chain
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