>>1
who knows, there might be, you will go down in history if you find one.
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Anonymous2007-08-20 22:12 ID:lR5lZtU7
>>8
If he meant unique then the answer is no, because the cardinality of the reals is greater than that of the primes. If he also meant integers instead of reals, then the answer is yes, and there are infinitely many such functions. Finally, the question becomes interesting if you constrain the function in certain ways.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes
Boy, these frickin' primes are annoying. Why can't we generate them? Isn't "divisible only by itself and 1" a well understood property? Is it possible that there's a N-dimensional form of the Ulam Spiral that lines them up precisely?
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Anonymous2007-08-20 23:38 ID:eqzHSSan
Let p_n be the n'th prime, where p_0 = 2. Define f:N->N by f(n) = p_n.
>>14 When book learning and structured education are mis-applied to reality, then they deserve contempt. Since you're obviously about as mentally flexible as a cicada, I'm sure you have no idea what I just said.
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Anonymous2007-08-21 18:29 ID:YD+a3oAh
>>18
I could have shit that same sentence when I was 2 years old.