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Problem of the Week 976

A Zero-One Decision

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How many primes are there that, in the usual base 10 notation, begin and end with a "1" and have alternating "0"s and "1"s?

Source: This is an old Putnam Exam problem.
© Copyright 2003 Stan Wagon. Reproduced with permission.

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6 February 2003