A prime-representing constant

DOI10.1080/00029890.2019.1530554MaRDI QIDQ4613467zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Dylan Fridman, Juli Garbulsky, Bruno Glecer, James Grime, Massi Tron Florentin

Publication date 1 February 2019

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15882

zbMATH Keywords

floor functionprime-representing constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes (11A41) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60)

Abstract: We present a constant and a recursive relation to define a sequence $f_n$ such that the floor of $f_n$ is the $n$th 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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