[seqfan] Primes of the form kn+1

Michael Porter ic_designer at verizon.net
Thu Dec 17 18:42:15 CET 2009


Is it true that for every positive integer n, there is a prime of the form kn+1 with 1<=k<=n?

I submitted the following PARI program for sequence A089727:
A089727(n) = {local(k);k=n;while(!isprime(n*k+1),k--);n*k+1}
and then I started wondering if the while loop would always terminate.

Thanks,
Michael






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