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A116516
Decimal expansion of constant C such that floor(p# * C) is always a prime number (for p >= 2), where p# is the primorial function, i.e., the product of prime numbers up to and including p.
1
1, 2, 5, 4, 1, 9, 6, 1, 0, 1, 5, 7, 8, 0, 1, 1, 9, 3, 6, 2, 7, 7, 6, 7, 9, 5, 5, 4, 9, 1, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 3, 7, 7, 9, 8, 6, 9, 2, 1, 8, 0, 4, 2, 6, 2, 2, 1, 9, 5, 8, 3, 2, 7, 2, 2, 5, 5, 4, 6, 0, 8, 8, 6, 4, 6, 9, 9, 4, 2, 8, 7, 5, 1, 4, 4, 7, 5, 1, 3, 2, 3
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
This constant is similar to Mills's constant (where floor(x^(3^n)) is always prime). I've calculated it all by myself and I never heard of it before. I can't even prove that it exists, but after my calculations, it is most likely. It definitely starts with these 43 decimal digits. Does anybody know if anyone calculated this before?
There should be infinitely many constants such that floor(p# * C) is always prime, but the range in which these numbers appear is extremely narrow and every such constant would start with these 74 decimal digits.
EXAMPLE
If the constant 1.2541961... is continuously multiplied by the prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 ..., then floor(x) is always prime (i.e., 2, 7, 37, 263, 2897, ...).
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A200019 A282824 A106664 * A011417 A231890 A087561
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Martin Raab, Mar 24 2006; extended Apr 22 2006 and again Jun 28 2007
EXTENSIONS
a(76)-a(87) from Jon E. Schoenfield, Jul 23 2017
STATUS
approved