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Numbers k such that (10^k - 1)/3 + 5*10^floor(k/2) is a palindromic wing prime (a.k.a. near-repdigit palindromic prime).
+10
2
3, 15, 171, 189, 547, 713, 2155, 3595, 13517, 60465
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Prime versus probable prime status and proofs are given in the author's table.
a(11) > 2*10^5. - Robert Price, Apr 21 2016
REFERENCES
C. Caldwell and H. Dubner, "Journal of Recreational Mathematics", Volume 28, No. 1, 1996-97, pp. 1-9.
FORMULA
a(n) = 2*A183177(n) + 1.
EXAMPLE
15 is a term because (10^15 - 1)/3 + 5*10^7 = 333333383333333.
MATHEMATICA
Do[ If[ PrimeQ[(10^n + 15*10^Floor[n/2] - 1)/3], Print[n]], {n, 3, 13600, 2}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 16 2005 *)
KEYWORD
more,nonn,base
AUTHOR
Patrick De Geest, Nov 16 2002
EXTENSIONS
a(10) from Robert Price, Apr 21 2016
Name corrected by Jon E. Schoenfield, Oct 31 2018
STATUS
approved
a(n) = (10^(2*n+1)-1)/3 + 5*10^n.
+10
2
8, 383, 33833, 3338333, 333383333, 33333833333, 3333338333333, 333333383333333, 33333333833333333, 3333333338333333333, 333333333383333333333, 33333333333833333333333, 3333333333338333333333333, 333333333333383333333333333, 33333333333333833333333333333, 3333333333333338333333333333333
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
See A183177 = {1, 7, 85, 94, 273, 356, ...} for the indices of primes.
LINKS
Brady Haran and Simon Pampena, Glitch Primes and Cyclops Numbers, Numberphile video (2015).
Patrick De Geest, Palindromic Wing Primes: (3)8(3), updated: June 25, 2017.
Makoto Kamada, Factorization of 33...33833...33, updated Dec 11 2018.
FORMULA
a(n) = 3*A138148(n) + 8*10^n = A002277(2n+1) + 5*10^n.
G.f.: (8 - 505*x + 200*x^2)/((1 - x)(1 - 10*x)(1 - 100*x)).
a(n) = 111*a(n-1) - 1110*a(n-2) + 1000*a(n-3) for n > 2.
MAPLE
A332138 := n -> (10^(2*n+1)-1)/3+5*10^n;
MATHEMATICA
Array[ (10^(2 # + 1)-1)/3 + 5*10^# &, 15, 0]
PROG
(PARI) apply( {A332138(n)=10^(n*2+1)\3+5*10^n}, [0..15])
(Python) def A332138(n): return 10**(n*2+1)//3+5*10**n
CROSSREFS
Cf. (A077792-1)/2 = A183177: indices of primes.
Cf. A002275 (repunits R_n = (10^n-1)/9), A002277 (3*R_n), A011557 (10^n).
Cf. A138148 (cyclops numbers with binary digits), A002113 (palindromes).
Cf. A332118 .. A332178, A181965 (variants with different repeated digit 1, ..., 9).
Cf. A332130 .. A332139 (variants with different middle digit 0, ..., 9).
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Feb 09 2020
STATUS
approved

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