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%S 177,225,397,1245,8457,20105,111725
%N Numbers k such that (10^k - 1) - 4*10^floor(k/2) is a palindromic wing prime (a.k.a. near-repdigit palindromic prime).
%C Prime versus probable prime status and proofs are given in the author's table.
%D C. Caldwell and H. Dubner, "Journal of Recreational Mathematics", Volume 28, No. 1, 1996-97, pp. 1-9.
%H Patrick De Geest, World!Of Numbers, <a href="http://www.worldofnumbers.com/wing.htm#pwp959">Palindromic Wing Primes (PWP's)</a>
%H Makoto Kamada, <a href="https://stdkmd.net/nrr/9/99599.htm#prime">Prime numbers of the form 99...99599...99</a>
%H <a href="/index/Pri#Pri_rep">Index entries for primes involving repunits</a>.
%F a(n) = 2*A183186(n) + 1.
%e 177 is a term because (10^177 - 1) - 4*10^88 = 99...99599...99.
%t Do[ If[ PrimeQ[10^n - 4*10^Floor[n/2] - 1], Print[n]], {n, 3, 20200, 2}] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Dec 16 2005 *)
%Y Cf. A004023, A077775-A077798, A107123-A107127, A107648, A107649, A115073, A183174-A183187.
%K more,nonn,base
%O 1,1
%A _Patrick De Geest_, Nov 16 2002
%E One more term from PWP table added by _Patrick De Geest_, Nov 05 2014
%E Name corrected by _Jon E. Schoenfield_, Oct 31 2018