# Unconditional Prime-Representing Functions, Following Mills

@article{Elsholtz2020UnconditionalPF,
title={Unconditional Prime-Representing Functions, Following Mills},
author={Christian Elsholtz},
journal={The American Mathematical Monthly},
year={2020},
volume={127},
pages={639 - 642}
}
• C. Elsholtz
• Published 2 April 2020
• Mathematics
• The American Mathematical Monthly
Abstract Mills proved that there exists a real constant A > 1 such that for all the values are prime numbers. No explicit value of A is known, but assuming the Riemann hypothesis one can choose Here we give a first unconditional variant: is prime, where can be computed to millions of digits. Similarly, is prime, with
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