A prime can be balanced in more ways than one but the orders may not be continuous. A doubly balanced prime like 18713 is a balanced prime of order 1 and order 2. Here the orders, 1 and 2, are continuous. However, a prime like 263 can be written as (257 + 263 + 269)/3 but also (179 + 181 + 191 + 193 + 197 + 199 + 211 + 223 + 227 + 229 + 233 + 239 + 241 + 251 + 257 + 263 + 269 + 271 + 277 + 281 + 283 + 293 + 307 + 311 + 313 + 317 + 331 + 337 + 347 + 349 + 353)/31. It is a balanced prime of order 1 and order 31, but 1 and 31 are not continuous. Both 263 and 18713 are said to be balanced primes of index 2. The balanced primes of index 1 are those that are balanced in one way only, the first of these being 5.
Unlike the doubly balanced primes (18731, 25621, 28069, 30059, 31051 etc.), the balanced primes of index 2 are relatively frequent. Here is a list of the first of them:
211, 263, 349, 397, 409, 439, 709, 751, 787, 827, 1153, 1187, 1259, 1487, 1523, 1531, 2281, 2287, 2347, 2621, 3037, 3109, 3313, 3329, 3539, 3673, 4357, 4397, 4493, 4951, 4969, 4987, 5189, 5303, 5347, 5857, 6323, 6337, 7583, 7907, 7933, 8429, 8713, 8821
After that, they naturally become less frequent. Here are the first balanced primes of index 3:
53, 607, 977, 1289, 2083, 2351, 4013, 5563, 8803, 10657, 11117, 12583, 14747, 16433, 18731, 22067, 22699, 28477, 32833, 39227, 39749, 41957, 44357, 46229, 46643, 50053, 50123, 51869, 53617, 54469, 56167, 63377, 63527, 66797, 74729, 75217
Even the first few balanced primes of index 4 (157, 353, 8233, 23893, 26183 and 30197) will occur within the lives of most individuals.
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