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Two flavors of Prime Numbers involved in their running sums
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Jan 24, 2011 6:13 AM
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Henry
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Re: Two flavors of Prime Numbers involved in their running sums
Posted:
Jan 24, 2011 6:13 AM
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On Jan 21, 2:10 pm, rom...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Ok Henry
> but counting a sequence is very straight forward.
>
> I made sure my work was in harmony with the published data.
>
> The series shows the following in the same run, making your claims
> rather
> lame.
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> mark 1e6 at step:78497 PN : 999979 Sum: 3.754940E+10 Lp: 50.599179
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> mark 1e9 at step:50847533 PN : 999999929 Sum: 2.473951E+16 Lp: 78.441917
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> mark 1e10 at step:455052510 PN : 9999999943 Sum: 2.220822E+18 Lp: 87.787554
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> at step 1000000000, PN is 22801763489 sum Lp 91.138528
>
I think you will find most sources say there are 78498 primes smaller
than 1 million, and that the largest of them is 999983, so their sum
is 37550402023. Your other two also look as if they are out by one
prime:
http://oeis.org/A006880
http://oeis.org/A003618
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