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A338837
Decimal expansion of the smallest positive number 'c' such that numbers of the form 1+floor(c^(n^1.5)) for all n >= 0 are distinct primes.
5
2, 2, 6, 7, 9, 9, 6, 2, 6, 7, 7, 0, 6, 7, 2, 4, 2, 4, 7, 3, 2, 8, 5, 5, 3, 2, 8, 0, 7, 2, 5, 3, 7, 1, 7, 7, 4, 5, 2, 7, 0, 4, 2, 2, 5, 4, 4, 0, 0, 8, 1, 8, 7, 7, 2, 2, 7, 5, 5, 9, 0, 8, 2, 9, 0, 5, 0, 7, 8, 3, 7, 4, 0, 7, 5, 1, 4, 6, 9, 5, 7, 3, 5, 7, 2, 1, 7, 3, 8, 3, 6, 2, 9, 0, 9, 9, 2, 5, 7, 0, 0, 4, 2, 7, 3, 1, 5, 8, 7, 3, 1, 7, 1, 1, 5, 7, 6, 5, 8, 8, 1, 9, 3, 4, 0, 9, 7, 2, 8, 1, 1, 3, 9, 0
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Assuming Cramer's conjecture on largest prime gaps, it can be proved that there exists at least one constant 'c' such that all a(n) are primes for n as large as required. The constant giving the smallest growth rate is c=2.2679962677067242473285532807253717745270422544...
Algorithm to generate the smallest constant 'c' and the associated prime number sequence a(n)=1+floor(c^(n^1.5)).
0. n=0, a(0)=2, c=2, d=1.5
1. n=n+1
2. b=1+floor(c^(n^d))
3. p=smpr(b) smallest prime >= b
4. If p=b then a(n)=p, go to 1.
5. c=(p-1)^(1/n^d)
6. a(n)=p
7. k=1
8. b=1+floor(c^(k^d))
9. If b<>a(k) then p=smpr(b), n=k, go to 5.
10. If k<n-1 then k=k+1, go to 8.
11. go to 1.
The precision of 'c' with the 135 digits listed above is sufficient to calculate the first 50 terms of the prime sequence. The prime number given by the term of index n=49 has 121 decimal digits.
EXAMPLE
2.26799626770672424732855328072537177452704225440081877227559082905078374075...
PROG
(PARI)
c(n=40, prec=100)={
my(curprec=default(realprecision));
default(realprecision, max(prec, curprec));
my(a=List([2]), d=1.5, c=2.0, b, p, ok, smpr(b)=my(p=b); while(!isprime(p), p=nextprime(p+1)); return(p); );
for(j=1, n-1,
b=1+floor(c^(j^d));
until(ok,
ok=1;
p=smpr(b);
listput(a, p, j+1);
if(p!=b,
c=(p-1)^(j^(-d));
for(k=1, j-2,
b=1+floor(c^(k^d));
if(b!=a[k+1],
ok=0;
j=k;
break;
);
);
);
);
);
default(realprecision, curprec);
return(c);
};
digits(floor(c(55, 200)*10^50))
\\ François Marques, Nov 17 2020
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A021445 A011145 A177852 * A079811 A097869 A298079
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Bernard Montaron, Nov 11 2020
STATUS
approved