OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
See A107649 = {1, 4, 26, 187, 226, 874, ...} for the indices of primes.
LINKS
Patrick De Geest, Palindromic Wing Primes: (1)9(1), updated: June 25, 2017.
Brady Haran and Simon Pampena, Glitch Primes and Cyclops Numbers, Numberphile video (2015).
Makoto Kamada, Factorization of 11...11911...11, updated Dec 11 2018.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (111,-1110,1000).
FORMULA
G.f.: (9 - 808*x + 700*x^2)/((1 - x)*(1 - 10*x)*(1 - 100*x)).
a(n) = 111*a(n-1) - 1110*a(n-2) + 1000*a(n-3) for n > 2.
E.g.f.: exp(x)*(10*exp(99*x) + 72*exp(9*x) - 1)/9. - Elmo R. Oliveira, Dec 16 2025
MAPLE
A332119 := n -> (10^(2*n+1)-1)/9+8*10^n;
MATHEMATICA
Array[(10^(2 # + 1)-1)/9 + 8*10^# &, 15, 0]
Table[FromDigits[Join[PadRight[{}, n, 1], {9}, PadRight[{}, n, 1]]], {n, 0, 20}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {111, -1110, 1000}, {9, 191, 11911}, 20] (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 30 2024 *)
PROG
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Feb 09 2020
STATUS
approved
