On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 3:47 PM <tomusa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am looking for a program able to output a set of integers meeting the > following requirement: > > a(n) is the minimum k > 0 such that n*2^k - 3 is prime, or 0 if no such k > exists > > Could anyone get me started? (I am an amateur)
Is there some known method of determining that no such k exists? The obvious approach would be to try every possible value of k in order. The problem is that there are infinitely many possible values of k, so the program would not output 0; it would just never complete. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
