Super-prime
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Super-prime numbers are the subsequence
Subsequence
In mathematics, a subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without changing the order of the remaining elements...

 of prime numbers that occupy prime-numbered positions within the sequence of all prime numbers. The subsequence begins
3, 5, 11, 17, 31, 41, 59, 67, 83, 109, 127, 157, … .

That is, if p(i) denotes the ith prime number, the numbers in this sequence are those of the form p(p(i)). used a computer-aided proof (based on calculations involving the subset sum problem) to show that every integer greater than 96 may be represented as a sum of distinct super-prime numbers. Their proof relies on a result resembling Bertrand's postulate, stating that (after the larger gap between super-primes 5 and 11) each super-prime number is less than twice its predecessor in the sequence.

Broughan and Barnett show that there are
super-primes up to x.

One can also define "higher-order" primeness much the same way, and obtain analogous sequences of primes.

A variation on this theme is the sequence of prime numbers with palindromic
Palindromic number
A palindromic number or numeral palindrome is a 'symmetrical' number like 16461, that remains the same when its digits are reversed. The term palindromic is derived from palindrome, which refers to a word like rotor that remains unchanged under reversal of its letters...

indices, beginning with
3, 5, 11, 17, 31, 547, 739, 877, 1087, 1153, 2081, 2381, … .

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