• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    Oh yeah well if you’re some sort of numbers guy, answer me this: I think you’re name is super cool, and makes me wonder, is there a largest prime you can make listing digits of pi starting from the beginning. There’s gotta be infinite right?

    • addie@feddit.uk
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      22 hours ago

      Well, three is prime and pi starts with a three, therefore, even if there’s larger primes, there is one which is the largest. QED.

    • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Pi is suspected to be a normal number (though this has not been proven). If it is normal, it’s likely that integers comprised of the first N digits of pi will be just as likely to be prime as comparable large integers. I suspect but cannot prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers whose digits are the first N digits of pi (with or without the leading 3).