[email protected] (Mike Duvos) writes:
> Victor S. Miller, [who I suspect is the same Victor S. Miller I
> knew at UMass Boston many years ago], published a nifty little
> paper in the mid 1980's on the computation of the function Pi(n)
> which gives the Nth prime as a function of N. He had a table
> giving the (10^N)th prime for n={3,6,9,12,15,18,...} which was
> quite impressive. Calculating the correct value for the
> zillionth prime directly is a cute bit of mathematics.
Any chance you could give us a pointer, or perhaps a summary? I'd bet
dollars to donuts that you'll give us the pointer, but in either case, I'm
sure we'd appreciate it!
--Jeff
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