EUREKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Artur grafix at csl.pl
Sat Dec 16 18:37:41 CET 2006


Dear Jonathan,
> Jasinski said it, and emailed again:
> There's always a prime between n and 10n.

I was say much more There's always a prime between n and 10n which I know  
all first digits with exception last one or two last
BEST WISHES
ARTUR


>
Dnia 16-12-2006 o 18:12:23 Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> "Chebychev said it and I'll say it again:
> There's always a prime between n and 2n."
>
> I skipped the attribution in A118909.*
> *
> Joseph Louis François Bertrand [1822-1900] was the Paris professor who  
> made
> the conjecture, proved by Chenychev in 1850. I have heard that It appears
> that Nat Fine wrote this couplet in honor of Paul Erdos.
>
> Jasinski said it, and emailed again:
> There's always a prime between n and 10n.
>
> "ten" rhymes with "n."  This is as great an advance in mathematical  
> poetry
> as any sequence containing "14" is to sonnets.  Or, more to the point, as
> the fact that the number of syllables in a haiku is prime.
>
> I'm nearly the last person to criticize anyone who submits a base  
> sequence,
> or a sequence involving primes. But when I do, I know it to be a base
> sequence, and endeavor to submit the more generalized sequence of
> antidiagonals of the array of such a sequence over all natural number  
> bases.
>
> Sometimes generalization sheds new light on a problem. Grothendieck, for
> instance, as a master of that, before he turned his mind to politics. If
> there is an enlightening generalization that moves beyond the  
> arbitrariness
> on decimal base, I'd be pleased to see it.
>
> No disrespect to Jasinski.  I also have made the mistake of egotistically
> proposing to name something after myself (a la Donald Trump), and over
> premature exclamation marks, not symbolizing factorials, out of  
> excitement
> and enthusiam. Also, sometimes I like the sequences by this gentleman, as
> indicated by A113914 and its ilk.
>
> In this holiday season, perhaps it is best to lean towards tolerance,
> charity, forgiveness, and kindness.
>
> -- Jonathan Vos Post
>
> On 12/16/06, Hans Havermann <pxp at rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>> Antti Karttunen asked:
>>
>> So, please tell us, what is the ground-breaking idea in your primes  
>> below?
>>
>>
>> 17989, 179849, 1798487, 17984833, 179848309, 1798483067,
>> 17984830667, 179848306667, 1798483066669, 17984830666651,  
>> 179848306666507,
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I can at least verify that:
>>
>> a(1) = 17989
>> a(n) = PreviousPrime[10*a(n-1)]
>>
>> I hope there's more to it than that. ;)
>>
>>








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