Repeatedly appending any digit to generate composite numbers

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.121.05.416zbMATH Open1320.11004DBLPjournals/tamm/GranthamJRW14arXiv1903.05023OpenAlexW2294023910WikidataQ58131550 ScholiaQ58131550MaRDI QIDQ2928637FDOQ2928637

Authors: Jon Grantham, Witold Jarnicki, J. H. Rickert, Stan Wagon 

Publication date: 10 November 2014

Published in: American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the problem of finding integers $k$ such that appending any number of copies of the base-ten digit $d$ to $k$ yields a composite number. In particular, we prove that there exist infinitely many integers coprime to all digits such that repeatedly appending {it any} digit yields a composite number.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05023

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zbMATH Keywords

covering setsprime numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Primes (11A41) Factorization; primality (11A51)

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