Shantha prime
A Shantha prime is a prime number of the form with being a Mangammal prime (http://planetmath.org/MangammalPrime). The smallest Shantha prime is . The next is and has 259 digits. Shantha primes are very rare among the smaller numbers. The above formulation generates mostly composite numbers
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References
- 1 A. K. Devaraj, ”Euler’s Generalization
of Fermat’s Theorem-A Further Generalization”, in Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics & Related Fields, 2004.