A093781 a(n) is the position of the prime 5 in the Euclid-Mullin (EM) sequence of type A000945, if it were started with prime(n) instead of 2.

7, 7, 1, 7, 18, 10, 3, 4, 11, 7, 8, 8, 10, 7, 3, 13, 8, 6, 7, 8, 6, 4, 7, 8, 9, 4, 6, 3, 4, 11, 5, 8, 3, 4, 4, 8, 8, 13, 3, 10, 21, 15, 6, 8, 3, 4, 13, 5, 3, 4, 8, 14, 6, 10, 3, 6, 12, 6, 10, 6, 6, 13, 8, 4, 6, 3, 11, 5, 3, 4, 13, 6, 10, 8, 4, 26, 8, 7, 11, 4, 7, 10, 7, 5, 4, 7, 16, 8, 7, 9, 3, 5, 5, 6

Offset: 1

Author

Labos Elemer, May 04 2004

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

a(38) = 13 because prime(38) = 163 and the corresponding EM sequence is {163, 2, 3, 11, 7, 75307, 3931, 5399, 3041, 409, 179, 92958641873, 5, 2003, ...}, where 5 appears at the 13th position. - David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007

Links

• David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Crossrefs

Cf. A000945, A051308-A051334, A056756, A093777-A093780.

Cf. A093782.

Programs

PARI

em(i) = local(p, c, n, f, q); p = prime(i); if (p == 5, return(1)); c = 1; n = p; while (1, c++; f = factor(n + 1, 2^31 - 1); q = f[1, 1]; if (!isprime(q), f = factor(n + 1); q = f[1, 1]); if (q == 5, return(c)); n *= q); \\ David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007

Extensions

More terms from David Wasserman, Apr 19 2007