Smarandache-Wellin primes

[Edwin Clark]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:

> 
> There is a conflict between the Crandall-Pomerance book and the OEIS.
> Would someone please check?   
> 
> The book says the concatenation of the first 719 primes is a prime.
> This is the number  235711...5441 (since the 719-th prime is 5441).

Maple tells me that the concatenation of the first 719 primes has 7, 157, 
563 as factors:

>x:=cat(seq(ithprime(i),i=1..719)):
>ifactor(parse(x),easy);
                      (7)  (157)  (563) _c2673_2


--Edwin


> 
> Yet in the OEIS we have:
> 
> %S A019518 2,23,235,2357,235711,23571113,2357111317,235711131719,23571113171923,
> %T A019518 2357111317192329,235711131719232931,23571113171923293137,
> %U A019518 2357111317192329313741,235711131719232931374143,23571113171923293137414347
> %N A019518 Smarandache-Wellin numbers: a(n) = concatenation of first n primes.
> (fine)
> 
> %I A069151
> %S A069151 2,23,2357
> %N A069151 Concatenations of consecutive primes, starting with 2, that are also prime.
> %C A069151 Prime Smarandacher-Wellin numbers.
> ...
> %E A069151 The next term has 355 digits and is too large to include.
> (presumably fine, but I did not check "355")
> 
> %S A046035 1,2,4,128,174,342,435,1429
> %N A046035 Concatenation of first n primes is prime.
> ...
> %A A046035 Eric W. Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com)
> %E A046035 Additional comments from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Sep 10 2001
> (surely 719 should be there?)
> 
> %S A046284 2,3,7,719,1033,2297,3037,11927
> %N A046284 Concatenation of primes from 2 through p is a prime.
> ...
> %A A046284 Patrick De Geest (pdg(AT)worldofnumbers.com), Jun 15 1998.
> %E A046284 Additional comments from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Sep 10 2001
> (surely 5441 should be there?)
> 
> OTOH the book may be wrong and the OEIS entries correct.  Can someone check?
> 
> NJAS
> 

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    W. Edwin Clark, Math Dept, University of South Florida,
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