A pi-prime is a prime number appearing in the decimal expansion of pi. The known examples are 3, 31, 314159, 31415926535897932384626433832795028841, ... (OEIS A005042). The numbers of digits in these examples are 1, 2, 6, 38, 16208, 47577, 78073, 613373, ... (OEIS A060421). The largest of these are summarized in the following table.
decimal digits | discoverer | date |
47577 | E. W. Weisstein | Apr. 1, 2006 |
78073 | E. W. Weisstein | Jul. 13, 2006 |
613373 | A. Bondrescu | May 29, 2016 |
Another set of pi-related primes is the positive integers such that
is prime, where
is the floor function.
The first few are 1, 3, 4, 12, 73, 317, 2728, 6826, 7683, 7950, 14417, ... (OEIS
A059792), corresponding to the primes 3, 31,
97, 924269, ... (OEIS A077547).
Similarly, the first few
such that
is prime, where
is the ceiling function are 5, 29, 88, 948, 1071,
1100, 1578, ... (OEIS A111937) with no others
less than
,
corresponding to the primes 307, 261424513284461, 56129192858827520816193436882886842322337671,
... (OEIS A118843).