A variant of the Euclid-Mullin sequence containing every prime · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1605.08929/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA variant of the Euclid-Mullin sequence containing every prime — mentioned by JadeNBhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20017285urn:hackerpapers:mention:1605.08929:20017285Sun, 26 May 2019 20:27:04 GMT<p>A way less interesting comment on the Euclid–Mullin sequence, for anyone who&#x27;s just learned about it in a math class: it is common to take away the wrong lesson &quot;the product of all the primes so far, plus 1, is always prime.&quot; (Even if it&#x27;s totally obvious to you that this is false, I assure you that it&#x27;s not obvious to everyone. Sigh, I&#x27;ve also just noticed that, by skipping to the part of the article about interesting unsolved questions, I missed that the author says exactly this. Sorry! Hopefully the rest of the comment is worth something.) This succeeds for a little while, since (the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1605.08929/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.NT