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Originally Posted by PrimePages
A Cunningham chain of length k (of the first kind) is sequence of k primes, each which is twice the preceding one plus one. For example, {2, 5, 11, 23, 47} and {89, 179, 359, 719, 1439, 2879}.
A Cunningham chain of length k (of the second kind) is a sequence of k primes, each which is twice the preceding one minus one. (For example, {2, 3, 5} and {1531, 3061, 6121, 12241, 24481}.)
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