A171883 Mills primes, starting with 3.

3, 29, 24391, 14510715208481, 3055388613462301256452407743005777548691

Offset: 1

Author

Robert Munafo, Feb 27 2010

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

For the standard Mills primes sequence, A051254, one starts with 2, and each successive term a(n) is the smallest prime greater than a(n-1)^3. This sequence uses the same definition but starts with 3.

a(6) has 119 digits and is too large to include.

Links

• Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..7
• Robert Munafo, Mills primes, starting with 3

Crossrefs

Cf. A051254

Programs

Mathematica

p = 36/25; Table[p = NextPrime[p^3], {6}] (* From Alonso del Arte based on T. D. Noe's program for A051254, Oct 05 2011 *)
NestList[NextPrime[#^3]&,3,5] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 15 2014 *)

Maxima

n:3 $ l:10^100 $ print(n) $ while (n
				

Extensions

Offset corrected by Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Oct 05 2011