mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos) writes:
Victor S. Miller, [who I suspect is the same Victor S. Miller I knew at UMass Boston many years ago], published a nifty little paper in the mid 1980's on the computation of the function Pi(n) which gives the Nth prime as a function of N. He had a table giving the (10^N)th prime for n={3,6,9,12,15,18,...} which was quite impressive. Calculating the correct value for the zillionth prime directly is a cute bit of mathematics.
Any chance you could give us a pointer, or perhaps a summary? I'd bet dollars to donuts that you'll give us the pointer, but in either case, I'm sure we'd appreciate it! --Jeff -- ====== ====== +----------------jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us----------------+ == == | The new, improved, environmentally safe, bigger, better,| == == -= | faster, hypo-allergenic, AND politically correct .sig. | ==== ====== | Now with a new fresh lemon scent! | PGP Key Available +---------------------------------------------------------+