A Variation on Mills-Like Prime-Representing Functions
Number Theory
2018-01-25 v1
Abstract
Mills showed that there exists a constant such that is prime for every positive integer . Kuipers and Ansari generalized this result to where and . The main contribution of this paper is a proof that the function is also a prime-representing function, where denotes the ceiling or least integer function. Moreover, the first 10 primes in the sequence generated in the case are calculated. Lastly, the value of is approximated to the first digits and is shown to begin with .
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@article{arxiv.1801.08014,
title = {A Variation on Mills-Like Prime-Representing Functions},
author = {László Tóth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08014},
year = {2018}
}