Ahem....
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On 9/28/06, Soo Reams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allen Poapst wrote:
> > Hi, my name is Allen Poapst, attending Brock University, St. Catharines ON,
> > Canada. I was searching up prime sequence formula on the internet, and
> > happened to find your name and e-mail.
> >
> > Some sort of GIMPS 10,000$ thing, I have no clue what this is, is it a
> > reward for finding the formula?
> >
> It's a reward for the first 10 million digit prime. It's actually
> offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, not GIMPS, although GIMPS
> is probably the leading contender to win it (your idea notwithstanding.)
> > If so, I have found a formula for the prime sequence which I am trying to
> > get published through the university I am attending. Yes I know this is a
> > hotmail account and an informal letter, but it is just for inquiry purposes.
> >
> > Though the formula I have works in the following manner:
> >
> > f(x) = x....
> >
> > x f(x)
> > 2 1
> > 3 2
> > 5 3
> > 7 4
> > 11 5
> > 13 6
> > . .
> > . .
> > . .
> > 200,000,093 -> 11,078,945th prime (using my program that simulates my
> > formula, this calculation on my notebook takes 11 seconds)
> >
> Well, it takes 11 seconds to get to a 9-digit prime. You can probably
> imagine it'd take quite a while to get a 10-million digit prime,
> although I won't speculate on how long that might be.
> > etc... until infinite, although I have only tested my formula to
> > approximately 5 million, using a computer simulation, the logic of the
> > formula makes sense for all numbers, since I found a pattern that my formula
> > exploits. So if you give a prime number into my formula, it will pop out
> > where it is in the prime sequence, though I have not found a formula that
> > works the other way around, where you give the position in the sequence and
> > the formula pops out the prime number.
> >
> > A professor that is helping me publish my formula at the university I am
> > attending says that he knows of no formula that is known for what I have
> > found.
> >
> > Can you confirm this? And also would my formula acctually be worth 10,000$,
> > that would be great if it was actually worth money.
> >
> I've never heard of such a formula, and its existence would probably
> have far reaching consequences in terms of our current understanding of
> the distribution of the primes. Since it sounds like you aren't an
> expert mathematician, I hope you'll forgive me for being a little
> skeptical about your discovery. Maybe it's an astonishing coincidence,
> maybe it's in some way trivial (in which case someone on this list is
> likely to point that out if so.) Really it's hard to say much without
> knowing anything about your discovery. But, if it really is a formula of
> the nature you describe, I'll eat my hat post pictures thereof to this
> very mailing list.
> > A response ASAP would be appreciated, and thank you for your time, I am
> > really excited about this formula if it is unknown and I discovered it.
> >
> Well I suppose I would be too, but don't get too optimistic. Certainly I
> think it's rather unlikely that you'll be collecting the money.
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Allen Poapst, Brock University
> >
> Thanks,
> Soo Reams
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