A number encoding all primes This may be a soft question, but it's just something I thought of one night before sleeping. It's not my field at all, so I am just asking out of curiosity. Has anyone studied the number which is the sum over primes $\sum{ 2^{-p}}$? Its binary expansion (clearly) has a 1 in each prime^th "decimal place", and a zero everywhere else, so, it should be important in number theory I would guess.
 A: You might take a look at the paper by Forenc Adorjan, "Binary Mappings of monotonic sequences and the Aronson function".  It specifically discusses the number you describe.
A: See http://oeis.org/A051006 and http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeConstant.html which cover this particular sequence.
A: Here is Hardy & Wright's answer from "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers", (5th ed, p344), where they discuss a similar number:

"Although ... gives a 'formula' for the nth prime, it is not a very useful one. To calculate $p_n$ from this formula, it is necessary to know the value of $a$ correct to $2^n$ decimal places; and to do this, it is necessary to know the values of $p_1$, $p_2$, ..., $p_n$ ... There are a number of similar formulae which suffer from the same defect ... Any one of these formulae (or any similar one) would attain a different status if the exact value of the number $a$ which occurs in it could be expressed independently of the primes. There seems no likelihood of this, but it cannot be ruled out as entirely impossible."

