This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A105850 #12 Jul 24 2013 18:55:24 %S A105850 8,56,3104,9634304,92819813433344,8615517765800787268541087744, %T A105850 74227146372828989101844394431169040459931374583287906304 %N A105850 a(n+1) = a(n)^2 - 2^(2^n+1) with a(1) = 8. %C A105850 Lehmer used this sequence in his proof of the Lucas-Lehmer test. %H A105850 D. H. Lehmer, <a href="http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne/LukeMirror/lit/lit_007s.htm">On Lucas's Test for the Primality of Mersenne's Numbers</a>, J. London Math. Soc., 10 (1935) 162-165. %F A105850 a(n) = 2^(2^(n-1))*A003010(n). %t A105850 nxt[{n_,a_}]:={n+1,a^2-2^(2^n+1)}; Transpose[NestList[nxt,{1,8},7]][[2]] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Jul 24 2013 *) %Y A105850 Cf. A003010. %K A105850 nonn %O A105850 1,1 %A A105850 Douglas Stones (dssto1(AT)student.monash.edu.au), Apr 22 2005