A158939 First primes followed by sequences of exactly n monotonic increasing prime gaps.
3, 2, 17, 347, 2903, 15373, 128981, 1319407, 17797517, 94097537, 6927837557, 48486712783, 968068681511, 1472840004017, 129001208165717
Offset: 1
Examples
a(8)=1319407 is the first prime to be followed by n=8 monotonic increasing prime gaps: 4,8,10,14,16,18,32,34. a(14)=1472840004017 is the first prime to be followed by n=14 monotonic increasing prime gaps: 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,28,30,38,48,64,66,74.
Links
- William D. Banks, Tristan Freiberg, and Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh, Consecutive primes in tuples (2013), arXiv:1311.7003 [math.NT].
- Carlos Rivera, Puzzle 11. Distinct, Increasing & Decreasing Gaps, The Prime Puzzles and Problems Connection.
Programs
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PARI
is(p,k,g=0)=my(q=nextprime(p+1));if(g>=q-p,0,if(k>1,is(q,k-1,q-p),q-p>=nextprime(q+1)-q)) a(n)=forprime(p=2,,if(is(p,n),return(p))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 02 2012
Extensions
a(15) from Giovanni Resta, Apr 19 2016
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