"Ian L McLoughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks

> Since the list is quiet...
> Does a Fibonnacci series contain a finite or an infinite number of primes?
> From what I understand..
> In a gen.F sequence if the first two numbers are divisible by a prime all
> its numbers are divisible by the same prime, if the first two numbers are
> co-prime is there a generalised sequence that contains NO PRIMES....

      This is part of problem A3 in Richard K. Guy's
`Unsolved Problems in Number Theory', Second Edition,
Springer-Verlag, 1994.  This book could make a good
Christmas gift to your number theory friends.
Richard Guy gives solutions starting with

    1786 772701  928802  632268  715130  455793
    1059 683225  053915  111058  165141  686995   (Graham)

and

     49463  435743  205665
     62638  280004  239857      (Knuth)


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