Re: prime numbers formula please.
- From: "miss.helpful" <julia.gentili@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:41:09 -0800 (PST)
On 11 Jan., 13:34, Axel Vogt <&nore...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not a prove ... but you may search for "Jones' formula".
Why? Is it the same formula? Jones paper does not seem to
be openly accessible :-/
However practical it is useless,
You are a coder, not a mathematician, right?
Please listen to Mr. Hilbert:
http://math.sfsu.edu/smith/Documents/HilbertRadio/HilbertRadio.pdf
"Trotzdem haben es alle Mathematiker abgelehnt, die
Anwendungen als Wertmesser für die Mathematik gelten
zu lassen."
since it needs extremely long already for the n-th prime,
n beyond ~ 20.
Your code at least is faster (and a prove would be nice), but
beyond n ~ 30 ...
Beyond n ~ 30 it is still true! The only interesting
thing for me is to understand why.
.
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