Talk:Mills' constant

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Isn't it kind of redundant to say 'the integer part of' in the first line, since the expression has the floor function? Carifio24 02:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is redundancy. The floor symbol is not that well-known, so I don't think "integer part of" should just be removed, but maybe remove "of" or the floor symbol, or reformulate. PrimeHunter 03:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How much of the continued fraction form is known? —Tamfang 22:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this ${\displaystyle A}$ get the glory, rather than ${\displaystyle B=A^{3}}$ such that ${\displaystyle \lfloor B^{n}\;\rfloor }$ is prime, a simpler definition? —Tamfang 22:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um. A³ⁿ should be read as A⁽³ⁿ⁾, not (A³)ⁿ. —David Eppstein 22:50, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you, that detail of typography escaped me. —Tamfang 01:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of the reasons we should have dropped infix for math notation long ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.202.42 (talk) 19:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed math tags around the constant for two reasons: It makes it possible to copy the number to the clipboard (people might want to paste it to a calculator to test for some values of n), and the approximation symbol was redundant after the word 'approximately'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.202.42 (talk) 20:09, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the previous a(i) notation into a_i notation, as that is more usual in sequences. Also, I included some of the mathematical expressions into <math> tags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jotomicron (talk • contribs) 18:15, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The "largest known Mills prime" here has offsets up to 97220. The OEIS sequence A108739 gives three additional ones: 66768, 300840, 1623568. Doesn't this make the actual largest-known Mills prime (((P)^3+66768)^3+300840)^3+1623568, where P is the one given in this article? (Oh, never mind, I see now that the last three are speculative.) 138.16.19.174 (talk) 18:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]