A Prime-Representing Constant

2020/10/29 by Dylan Fridman, Juli Garbulsky, Bruno Glecer +2 · 1 voice
Mathematics · #math.NT

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00029890.2019.1530554

Abstract

We present a constant and a recursive relation to define a sequence f_n such that the floor of f_n is the nth prime. Therefore, this constant generates the complete sequence of primes. We also show this constant is irrational and consider other sequences that can be generated using the same method.

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