OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The sum of the reciprocals of this sequence diverges; it grows as log log n, just as the sum of the reciprocals of the primes does. Note that this is based on phi - 1, not phi. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Mar 30 2006
FORMULA
The digits of Phi = (sqrt(5)-1)/2 are added (d_1 + d_2 + ... + d_i) and the prime whose index is the i-th sum is chosen. E.g., for Phi = .618033989... the first Phisumprime is prime(6) the second is prime(7), 3rd is prime(15), etc. Let d_1, d_2, ..., d_i be the expansion of the decimal digits of Phi. Then Phisumprime(n)= prime(d_1), prime(d_1+d_2), ..., prime(Sum_{i=1..n} d_i). This can be generalized to Phisumprime(n, z) where z is the nesting level of prime(x). For z=1 we have prime(); for z=2 we have prime (prime(x)); for z=3 prime (prime(prime(x))); etc.
MATHEMATICA
Prime[#]&/@Accumulate[RealDigits[GoldenRatio-1, 10, 50][[1]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 30 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) \\ phi digit sum index primes; phisump.gp Primes whose index is the sequential sum of digits of phi
{ phisump(n) = default(realprecision, 100000); p = (sqrt(5)-1)/2; default(realprecision, 28); sr=0; s=0; for(x=1, n, d = p*10; d1=floor(d); s+=d1; p = frac(d); d = p*10; p2=prime(s); sr+=1/p2+0.; print1(p2" "); ); print(" "); print(sr); }
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,base
AUTHOR
Cino Hilliard, Nov 16 2002
EXTENSIONS
Edited by T. D. Noe, Jun 24 2009
STATUS
approved