How many numbers in the following series are prime? 1 5 7 3 , 1 5 7 5 7 3 , 1 5 7 5 7 5 7 3 , 1 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 3 . . .
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Great solution, I didn't notice that pattern.
My solution is the following: To find a pattern, I compared the divisors in the first three numbers (I wrote java code to know the divisords) and then found out, that they all shared 13 as a divisor. I then tried to prove that all numbers in the secuence had 13 as a divisor, and to do that, I prefered to show that all the diferences were divisible by 13. (In a + b = c , if two variables are divisible by some number, then the third one is divisible aswell. In this case it´s 1 5 7 3 + ( 1 5 7 5 7 3 − 1 5 7 3 ) = 1 5 7 5 7 3 , 1 5 7 5 7 3 + ( 1 5 7 5 7 5 7 3 − 1 5 7 5 7 3 ) = 1 5 7 5 7 5 7 3 ... and so on, and as we know that 1573 is divisible by 13, we just have to proof that the diferences are divisible.) To proof that the differences are divisible, I also tried to find patterns. The differences were the following 1 5 6 0 0 0 , 1 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 , 1 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . . . I then used the 13 divisibility rule (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-divisibility-rule-of-13) and found out that all diferences converged in 156, which is divisible by 13.
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The sequence can be given recursively by: a 0 = 1 3 , a n + 1 = 1 0 0 ⋅ a n + 2 7 3
Since 2 7 3 is divisible by 1 3 , every term of a is divisible by 1 3 so there are 0 primes in the sequence.