Etymology

Copeland-Erdős constant

Today it means: An irrational constant that is the concatenation of "0." with the base-10 representations of the prime numbers in order, i.e. approximately 0.235711131719232931374143... Full definition →

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Named after Arthur Herbert Copeland and Paul Erdős, who published a related proof in 1946.

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