[seqfan] Re: both p -/+ 2 is prime power

[Neil Sloane]

With Robert GH.'s extension, that's a sequence that could be added to the
OEIS,
if someone would do it

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM, W. Edwin Clark <wclark at mail.usf.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Robert Gerbicz <robert.gerbicz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 2015-10-17 10:12 GMT+02:00 W. Edwin Clark <wclark at mail.usf.edu>:
> >
> > > If p = 7 then p+2 = 9 is not prime.
> > >
> >
> > Wrong, he needs prime power, not prime.
> >
>
>
> Oops. I misread.
>
>
> > The next two terms:  450283905890997361,36472996377170786401
> > and it is likely that there is no more terms: if p>3 then p-2 or p+2 is
> > divisible by 3, but as that is a prime power it should be in the form of
> > 3^k. So we need: 3^k+2 is prime and 3^k+4 is prime power, or 3^k-2 is
> prime
> > and 3^k-4 is prime power.
> >
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