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[halbower]

Originally Posted by Don Blazys

To: Halbower,

Don't mistake the constant: 2.566,543,832,171,388,844,467,529 for the formula.

I don't know a lot about computers, number crunching machines, or calculating devices, but doing it by hand, the above constant returns:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, and 59,

before it "breaks down".

However, in theory, if you can calculate the second root ("zero") of the equation (the one involving sin and ln) to an infinite number of decimal places (instead of just the 24 decimal places that I calculated by hand), then that constant will return all of the primes in sequence!

Using your logic, if we calculated the second root zero of the equation to an infinite number of decimal places, it's entirely possible that the returned values it is currently giving would be off. For example, using the constant
.566,543,832,171,388,844,467,529 gives us accurate values to 59. However, we may find that using the true number (to infinite decimal places) gives us INACCURATE results before reaching 59.