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[Don Blazys]

To: Modest, CraigD, Qfwfq, Pgrmdave and everyone else who participated in the "search for the Holy Grail of mathematics".

Eliminating the logarithms by re-writing the equation as:

((e^(e^((((sin(x^(1/2)))^(-1)-1)^(-1)-(pi)^2)^(-1)))/2-1)^(-1)/2-1)^(-1)/x-1=0,

I was able to confirm Modest's results with the online calculator that he recommended.

I thank each and every one of you for all your help and hard work.

I know that some of you are dissapointed in that the equation provided us with a remarkable approximation rather than an exact value for the "Blazys constant":

2.566543832171388844467529... ,

but please let me assure you that I am probably more disappointed than you.

Besides, I have several dozen similar equations that are also good "candidates", so in reality, the quest has just begun! I will be checking them over during the Christmas holidays, and will keep you posted as to how they pan out.

You know, since the equation on my website generates the primes:

(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29)

in that order and without involving "sieves", "comparisons" or "Wilsons theorem", it is still the best and most promising "prime generating formula" to date!

In fact, a mathematician in the Marilyn vos Savant forum recently expressed enormous surprise that there is nothing even remotely resembling it in "Wikipedia", and my guess is that he and others will now join me in the search for an equation, expression or series that results in an exact value for my constant.

Don.