A380943 Contribution to the OEIS (Saint Patrick Primes)

 A380943

Primes written in decimal representation by the concatenation of primes p and q such that the concatenation of q and p also forms a prime.

+40
0

37, 73, 113, 173, 197, 311, 313, 317, 331, 337, 359, 367, 373, 593, 617, 673, 719, 733, 761, 797, 977, 1093, 1097, 1123, 1277, 1319, 1361, 1373, 1783, 1913, 1931, 1979, 1997, 2293, 2297, 2311, 2347, 2389, 2713, 2837, 2971, 3109, 3119, 3137, 3191, 3229, 3271

(list; graph; refs; listen; history; edit; text; internal format)

OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Member primes could be named Saint Patrick primes because the date of Saint Patrick's Day, March 17 (3/17), produces the terms 173 and 317.

LINKS

James C. McMahon, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Michael De Vlieger, Plot a(n) = p<>q at (x,y) = (pi(p), pi(q)) showing all terms with pi(p) <= 40 and pi(q) <= 40, labeling p in red and q in blue.

Michael De Vlieger, Plot a(n) = p<>q at (x,y) = (pi(p), pi(q)) showing all terms with pi(p) <= 2000 and pi(q) <= 2000.

EXAMPLE

Primes 173 and 317 are members because they are formed by the concatenation of 17 & 3 and 3 & 17, respectively.

While the concatenation of 13 and 7 forms the prime 137, it is not a member because the concatenation of 7 and 13 is 713, which is not prime.

MATHEMATICA

lim=3300; plim=Max[FromDigits[Rest[IntegerDigits[lim]]], FromDigits[Drop[IntegerDigits[lim], -1]]]; p=Prime[Range[PrimePi[plim]]]; p2=Subsets[p, {2}]; fp[{a_, b_}]:=FromDigits[Join[IntegerDigits[a], IntegerDigits[b]]]; rfp[{a_, b_}]:=FromDigits[Join[IntegerDigits[b], IntegerDigits[a]]]; pabba=Select[p2, PrimeQ[fp[#]]&&PrimeQ[rfp[#]]&]; pp1=fp/@pabba; pp2=rfp/@pabba; Select[Union[Join[pp1, pp2]], #<=lim&]

PROG

(Python)

from sympy import isprime

def ok(n):

if not isprime(n): return False

s = str(n)

return any(s[i]!='0' and isprime(int(s[:i])) and isprime(int(s[i:])) and isprime(int(s[i:]+s[:i])) for i in range(1, len(s)))

print([k for k in range(3300) if ok(k)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Apr 05 2025

CROSSREFS

Subsequence of A019549 and A105184.

Cf. A133187.

KEYWORD

nonn,base,new

AUTHOR

James C. McMahon, Apr 03 2025

STATUS

approved

See post: https://jamesmacmath.blogspot.com/2025/03/saint-patrick-another-prime-day.html

Also, Michael De Vlieger made interesting graphics for this sequence: https://oeis.org/A380943/a380943.png and https://oeis.org/A380943/a380943_1.png

Smart Crows and Geometry

 

(Image: https://www.iconfinder.com/SatawatIcon)

Crows are recognized as very intelligent. Listen to this from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5355849/a-new-study-finds-crows-can-recognize-geometric-shapes

Or read the summary here: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/12/nx-s1-5359438/a-crows-math-skills-include-geometry

Also summarized in ScienceAdvances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718

Another post on math skills of animals: https://jamesmacmath.blogspot.com/2025/03/counting-critters-whos-got-numbers-game.html