OFFSET
1,1
REFERENCES
J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1. Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2nd edition, 1985; and later supplements.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
J. Brillhart, Concerning the number 2^(2p)+1, p prime, Math. Comp. 16 (80) (1962) 424-430.
J. Brillhart et al., Factorizations of b^n +- 1, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 22, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 3rd edition, 2002.
S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., The Cunningham Project
PROG
(PARI) is(n)=isprime(2^n-2^((n+1)/2)+1) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 17 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(16)-a(18) from Robert G. Wilson v, Sep 07 2000
a(19)-a(23) from Serge Batalov, Jun 16 2020
STATUS
approved