Self Number - Self Primes

Self Primes

A self prime is a self number that is prime. The first few self primes are

3, 5, 7, 31, 53, 97, 211, 233, 277, 367, 389, ... (sequence A006378 in OEIS)

In October 2006 Luke Pebody demonstrated that the largest known Mersenne prime that is at the same time a self number is 224036583−1. This is then the largest known self prime as of 2006.

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