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A Prime-Representing Constant — mentioned by ks2048

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:34:34 GMT

I often prefer code over math notation, but in this case, I find the math statement clearer - see Theorem 1 right at the start of this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.15882 The paper says the mathematician James Grime helped "tiny up the proofs" - some people may recognize him from Numberphile on Youtube.

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A Prime-Representing Constant — mentioned by pilaf

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:20:57 GMT

To add to that, quoting from the paper [1] (published in 2020): > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: > Dylan, Juli, Bruno and Massi are a group of 18/19-year-old friends from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The original idea came to Juli while having a shower. Bruno calculated the prime-generating constant, first by brute-force and then by finding its formula. As the investigation continued, Juli and Bruno were joined by Massi and Dylan. Later, the team contacted mathematician James Grime who helped by tidying up some of the proofs and writing this note. So ∞ thanks to James! 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15882

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A Prime-Representing Constant — HN submission

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:45:29 GMT

Constant that Generates nth prime

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