A Pierpont prime is a prime number of the form , where and are nonnegative integers.
The first few Pierpont primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 37, 73, 97, 109, 163, 193,
257, 433, 487, 577, 769, ... (OEIS A005109).
where ,
, and are nonnegative integers
and ,
, ..., are distinct Pierpont primes greater than 3 (Gleason 1988).
The numbers of Pierpont primes less than , , ... are 4, 10, 18, 25, 32, 42, 50, 58, ... (OEIS A113420)
and the numbers less than , , , , ... are 4, 10, 25, 58, 125, 250, 505, 1020, 2075, 4227,
... (OEIS A113412; Caldwell).
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