[seqfan] Re: Conways 5th problem solved

[Neil Sloane]

As Hans suggested, John Conway was referring to A195264, where the 20th
term is indeed not known, rather than the "home primes" sequence A037274,
where the first open case is n=49.
Neil

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Hans Havermann <gladhobo at teksavvy.com>
wrote:

> Neil Sloane: "At the OEIS-50 Fest yesterday, John Conway offered $1000 for
> the 20th term of A037274 (well, he didn't phrase the question in exactly
> those words). The answer of course is a(20) = 3318308475676071413."
>
> Curiously a(20) of the variant sequence, A195264, is the smallest unknown.
>
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