Talk:Mills' constant

Latest comment: 10 years ago by 138.16.19.174 in topic Still the largest known Mills prime?

Integer part and floor edit

Isn't it kind of redundant to say 'the integer part of' in the first line, since the expression has the floor function? Carifio24 02:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Yes, there is redundancy. The floor symbol is not that well-known, so I don't think "integer part of" should just be removed, but maybe remove "of" or the floor symbol, or reformulate. PrimeHunter 03:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Let's think rationally edit

How much of the continued fraction form is known? —Tamfang 22:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Why A? edit

Why does this   get the glory, rather than   such that   is prime, a simpler definition? —Tamfang 22:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Um. A3n should be read as A(3n), not (A3)n. —David Eppstein 22:50, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Ah, thank you, that detail of typography escaped me. —Tamfang 01:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
This is one of the reasons we should have dropped infix for math notation long ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.202.42 (talk) 19:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Removed math tag edit

I removed math tags around the constant for two reasons: It makes it possible to copy the number to the clipboard (people might want to paste it to a calculator to test for some values of n), and the approximation symbol was redundant after the word 'approximately'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.202.42 (talk) 20:09, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Math notation edit

I changed the previous a(i) notation into ai notation, as that is more usual in sequences. Also, I included some of the mathematical expressions into <math> tags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jotomicron (talkcontribs) 18:15, 18 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Still the largest known Mills prime? edit

The "largest known Mills prime" here has offsets up to 97220. The OEIS sequence A108739 gives three additional ones: 66768, 300840, 1623568. Doesn't this make the actual largest-known Mills prime (((P)^3+66768)^3+300840)^3+1623568, where P is the one given in this article? (Oh, never mind, I see now that the last three are speculative.) 138.16.19.174 (talk) 18:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)Reply