primes of the form 2^n+5

Christian G. Bower bowerc at usa.net
Tue Oct 8 20:05:49 CEST 2002


Hans Havermann <hahaj at rogers.com> wrote:
> > These are the values of n such that 2^n+5 is prime (up to 3000):
> > 1, 3, 5, 11, 47, 53, 141, 143, 191, 273, 341
> 
> I believe the next n is 16541.
> 

How are 1 and 3 primes of the form 2^n+5?

Is 1 + (pi/ln(2))i one of the allowed values of n?







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