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A065421
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Decimal expansion of Viggo Brun's constant B, also known as the twin primes constant B_2: Sum (1/p + 1/q) as (p,q) runs through the twin primes.
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26
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OFFSET
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1,2
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COMMENTS
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The calculation of Brun's constant is "based on heuristic considerations about the distribution of twin primes" (Ribenboim, 1989).
Another constant related to the twin primes is the twin primes constant C_2 (sometimes also denoted PI_2) A005597 defined in connection with the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture concerning the distribution pi_2(x) of the twin primes.
Comment from Hans Havermann, Aug 06 2018: "I don't think the last three (or possibly even four) OEIS terms [he is referring to the sequence at that date - it has changed since then] are necessarily warranted. P. Sebah (see link below) (http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Primes/twin.html) gives 1.902160583104... as the value for primes to 10^16 followed by a suggestion that the (final) value 'should be around 1.902160583...'" - added by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 06 2018
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REFERENCES
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R. Crandall and C. Pomerance, Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective, Springer, NY, 2001; see p. 14.
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 133-135.
P. Ribenboim, The Book of Prime Number Records, 2nd. ed., Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989, p. 201.
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LINKS
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V. Brun, La série 1/5 + 1/7 + 1/11 + 1/13 + 1/17 + 1/19 + 1/29 + 1/31 + 1/41 + 1/43 + 1/59 + 1/61 + ... où les dénominateurs sont "nombres premiers jumeaux" est convergente ou finie, Bull Sci. Math. 43 (1919), 100-104 and 124-128.
D. Shanks and J. W. Wrench, Brun's constant, Math. Comp. 28 (1974) 293-299; 28 (1974) 1183; Math. Rev. 50 #4510.
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FORMULA
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(1/5) + Sum_{n>=1, excluding twin primes 3,5,7,11,13,...} mu(n)/n =
(1/5) + 1 - 1/2 + 1/6 + 1/10 + 1/14 + 1/15 + 1/21 + 1/22 - 1/23 + 1/26 - 1/30 + 1/33 + 1/34 + 1/35 - 1/37 + 1/38 + 1/39 - 1/42 ... = 1.902160583... (End)
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EXAMPLE
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(1/3 + 1/5) + (1/5 + 1/7) + (1/11 + 1/13) + ... = 1.902160583209 +- 0.000000000781 [Nicely]
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A005597 (twin prime constant Product_{ p prime >= 3 } (1-1/(p-1)^2)).
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KEYWORD
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AUTHOR
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EXTENSIONS
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More terms computed by Pascal Sebah (pascal_sebah(AT)ds-fr.com), Jul 15 2001
Further terms computed by Pascal Sebah (psebah(AT)yahoo.fr), Aug 22 2002
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STATUS
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approved
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