Unique Prime

Following Yates (1980), a prime  such that  is a repeating decimal with decimal period shared with no other prime is called a unique prime. For example, 3, 11, 37, and 101 are unique primes, since they are the only primes with periods one (), two (), three (), and four () respectively. On the other hand, 41 and 271 both have period five, so neither is a unique prime.

The unique primes are the primes  such that

where  is a cyclotomic polynomial,  is the period of the unique prime,  is the greatest common divisor, and  is a positive integer.

The first few unique primes are 3, 11, 37, 101, 9091, 9901, 333667, ... (OEIS A040017), which have periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 9, 14, 24, ... (OEIS A051627), respectively.

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