haiku primes

kohmoto zbi74583 at boat.zero.ad.jp
Sun Dec 24 05:44:59 CET 2006


    Hi, Seqfans.

    How about "Waka prime".

    The numbers of syllables in a "Waka" are as follows.

         5,7,5,7,7

    The sum of them is also prime 31.

    So, "Waka prime" is a prime such that p is prime and 2*p+3*NextPrime(p) 
is prime.

    S : 2,5,7,11,19,....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Awbrey" <jawbrey at att.net>
To: "Joshua Zucker" <joshua.zucker at gmail.com>
Cc: <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: haiku primes


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> variant generalizations of the predicate haikuprime? : N -> B,
> not to be confused with the posinteger fn haikuprime : N -> N
> that gives the n'th haikuprime.
>
> 1. haikuprime_1?(k) iff prime?(k) and prime?(2k + nextprime(k))
> 2. haikuprime_2?(k) iff prime?(k) and prime?(3k + 2)
> 3. haikuprime_3?(k) iff prime?(k) and prime?(k(lastprime(k) + 
> lastlastprime(k))
> or haikuprime_3?(k) iff k = prime(j) and prime?(prime(j-2) + 
> prime(j-1)prime(j))
>
> the triple of adjacent primes (2, 3, 5) yields the prime 2 + 3*5 = 17, so 
> 5 is haiku_3,
> but (prime + prime*prime) = (odd + odd*odd) = even for every other case so 
> 5 is unique.
>
> shorter than my usual sequence ...
>
> ja
>
> Joshua Zucker wrote:
>>
>> On 12/16/06, Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > the fact that the number of syllables in a haiku is prime.
>>
>> OK, then, how about this (silly!) sequence:
>> "Haiku primes" are primes p such that p + nextprime(p) + p is also prime.
>> For example, 5 is the canonical haiku prime because 5, 7, and 5 are
>> all prime, and so is 5+7+5.
>>
>> [Of course, there could be argument about where the 7 comes from: is
>> it nextprime(p) or is it p+2 or is it some other function?  If it's
>> p+2 then the sequence is already in OEIS as A023208]
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