In response to a problem posed by Mark Underwood on the "Prime Numbers" Yahoo!Group.
139 and 149 are the smallest consecutive primes with the same terminal digit, so a(2)=139.
Here's a table of the smallest starting points for sequences of increasing length runs of primes with the same terminal digits:
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 139 |
| 3 | 1627 |
| 4 | 18839 |
| 5 | 123229 |
| 6 | 776257 |
| 7 | 3873011 |
| 8 | 23884639 |
| 9 | 36539311 |
| 10 | 196943081 |
| 11 | 452942827 |
| 12 | 73712513057 |
| 13 | 154351758091 / 177746482483 |
| 14 | 154351758091 |
| 15 | 4010803176619 |
| 16 | 6987191424553 (Resta, Nov 2004) |
| 17 | ??? |
I'd expect these to grow slightly faster than exponentially, so here's a log-plot of those values (doesn't include the 16):
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