OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
As numbers become large, the proportion of centuries with no primes increases according to the prime number theorem.
REFERENCES
J. W. L. Glaisher, Factor table for the sixth million : containing the least factor of every number not divisible by 2,3, or 5 between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000; Taylor and Francis, 1883
J. Murray, Report of the Annual Meeting, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 50 (1881), p. 308.
LINKS
Charles R Greathouse IV, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
FORMULA
a(n) ~ n. [Charles R Greathouse IV, Aug 21 2011]
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 2637800 because there is a prime gap of 112 from 2637799 to 2637911, which makes the century from 2637800 to 2637899 the second one consisting wholly of composite numbers.
MATHEMATICA
100SequencePosition[PrimePi[100Range[90000]], {x_, x_}][[All, 1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 19 2021 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Julien Peter Benney (jpbenney(AT)gmail.com), Mar 21 2008
EXTENSIONS
Definition clarified by Don Reble, Sep 06 2008
STATUS
approved