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Proth prime


In number theory, a Proth number, named after the mathematician François Proth, is a number of the form

where is an odd positive integer and is a positive integer such that . Without the latter condition, all odd integers greater than 1 would be Proth numbers.

The first few Proth numbers are (sequence in the OEIS):

The Cullen numbers (n·2n+1) and Fermat numbers (22n+1) are special cases of Proth numbers.


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