... Fibonacci-like sequence of composite numbers, Mathe-matics Magazine 63 (1990), 21-25.[5] Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Big Primes (1991), 178.[6] Paulo Ribenboim, The New Book of Prime Number ... coverings of the integers given the mk) and minimize the a’s and b’s con-structed by Knuth’s method. Thus the minimum values of a and b are determinedfor the pairs (pk,mk).2 Proof of RegularityBefore ... [4] to each of the 96 × 72 × 240 = 1658880 casesabove, we find the smallest values of a and b to be:(a, b) = (407389224418, 76343678551)with the triples below:the electronic journal of combinatorics...