AloneAgainstAll wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
What is the simplest formula that works?
AloneAgainstAll wrote:
This is argument which is backing up your claim? I must admit, i expected sth much better.
Bill Spight wrote:
IOW, you don't know.
AloneAgainstAll wrote:
So are there anymore backup for your claims, or thats all?
You posted an expression which you claim is one of several formulae that work. Apparently you are unaware of a simpler one. OK.
Please explain what the expression means. You may assume that we are elementary school students.
You always answer a question with a question? You need to make some investigation yourself - great Honinbo Shuei meijin advice always on props.
You claimed that such a formula does not exist - its high time to back your claim with some proof, or at least prove that formula i showed is wrong.
Your elementary school teacher made what is, at worst, an ambiguous claim, which depends upon what is a formula. It was a claim that also had been made by mathematicians. You then said
AloneAgainstAll wrote:
I wouldnt reccomend that math teacher to even my enemies.
I defended your teacher, who I still believe was right, based upon her understanding of what a formula is. My guess is that it was something like this. Given the Nth prime, Pn, and other information that we already know, which in this case would presumably include the identities of the first N-1 primes, but would not include information about higher numbers, such a formula is an expression which, when evaluated, will produce the N+1th prime. (If we are not restricted to what we already know, then we can find the next prime by examining numbers greater than Pn. The point of having a formula is to leap from the known to the unknown.)
The expression you provide requires inspecting numbers up to 2^(N+1) to find the N+1th prime. It would not be such a formula, based upon that criterion.
Your turn. Explain your expression, please.