Solution to Problem #12

Ken Duisenberg of Roseville, CA and Greg Dionne of Teradyne, Inc. wrote computer programs which found the following:

In bases 2 through 10, the first weakly prime numbers are:

1111111 (base 2), i.e. 127
2 (base 3), i.e. 2
11311 (base 4), i.e. 373
313 (base 5), i.e. 83
334155 (base 6), i.e. 28151
436 (base 7), i.e. 223
14103 (base 8), i.e. 6211
3738 (base 9), i.e. 2789
294001 (base 10), i.e. 294001

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