Mathematics Asked by Ifn47 on August 3, 2020
I need to obtain prime factorizations of numbers of the type: $sum_{i=0}^n p^i$, for any prime number $p$ (not the same one each time).
Do you know if there is a quicker algorithm to calculate these factorizations than those used for other natural numbers?
I don’t know if there is a known solution. My only lead is that all Mersenne primes are of the form $sum_{i=0}^n 2^i$.
Edit: by prime factorization I mean, for example, if $p$ is 3 and $n$ is 6, the number is 364, and the prime factorization I’m looking for is 2^2, 7 and 13.
You have a geometric series, so $sum_{i=0}^n p^i=frac {p^{n+1}-1}{p-1}$. When the prime is $2$ this does not give a factorization because the denominator is $1$. For all other primes it does.
Correct answer by Ross Millikan on August 3, 2020
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