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Perpetual Primes Production? (Posted on 2006-11-29) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Pick a positive integer to start a sequence. Now double it, and add one to the result: this is the second number of your sequence. Double that number, and add one, and that will be your third number; repeat the doubling and adding, and you will have a fourth number, and so on.

If you start with a prime number, and you keep doubling and adding one, is it possible to produce a sequence with only prime numbers?

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re(3): One Approach (Spoiler?) | Comment 4 of 12 |
(In reply to re(2): One Approach (Spoiler?) by Richard)

Richard:

I like your approach just fine, since it doesn't depend on some theorem that I can't prove.



  Posted by Steve Herman on 2006-11-29 16:19:45

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