[seqfan] Re: Sum of the cubes of the digits plus the prime equal the prime squared

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 06:04:50 CEST 2019


Sum of the cubes of the digits plus the prime is a squared prime which is
the same for three primes???  This strikes me as very contrived.  It does
not seem appropriate for the OEIS.  It might be a good example of what not
to submit.

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:05 PM Charles Greathouse <
charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:

> Sequence fans, Will  Gosnell asked me to forward this message to the list.
> He's trying to add a sequence based on a short list of triples. I believe
> he wants computational assistance with his problem and also I think he's
> not sure what is the best way to format them as a sequence.
>
> ---
>
> Dear  Sequence fan list,  I have 5 sequences on Oeis at present . Charles
> Greathouse  suggested I email you  with the information for this new
> sequence submission I have and that you could be of some assistance in
> having the sequence added to OEIS under my name Gosnell.  This sequence is
> a subsequence of the  sequence that starts  with the prime 17  on my page
> .  I told   Charles that I only  have  4 examples at present  which appear
> in the first 10 thousand terms  in the sequence that starts with 17 on my
> OEIS page.
>
> These  prime triples  have the property that the sum of the cubes of their
> digits  plus the prime all equal the same prime number squared .  The first
> example is ,  242377994591  and 242377994843   and  242377995323.  So when
> you add the  cubes of the digits of these primes and then add the prime
> itself to that quantity  you get  the prime  492319^2  .    The second
> example is    2014665131807   and  2014665132503   and 2014665132521  .
> The root of these  3  is  1419389^2.   The  next example  is  3928629229589
>  and  3928230693  and  3928629230783 . The root of these  is  1982077^2  .
> The next  example is  5027133481449  and 5027133482069   and  5027133482159
>  . the root of these  is 2242127^2.
>
> Professor  Robert Israel at UBC  is aware of this  sequence   and  confirms
>   my  belief that there are many more if not an infinite number of these
> prime triples  in existence . Can you help get this  sequence of prime
>  triples  added to the OEIS?
>
> ---
>
> I've been very busy lately (apologies for my absence, I have been caring
> for my 6-month old daughter and my wife, and also changing jobs) but I
> figure someone can probably find a good way to compute these.
>
> Charles Greathouse
> Path Robotics
>
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