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Sequences with high densities of primes: how to boost them to get even more and larger primes

I propose a methodology to help find large prime numbers with a much higher probability than picking up random numbers and testing them for primality. This would help speed up prime number generators ...
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$n$th prime: a better approximation

Let $p_n$ be the $n$-th prime, then from Wikipedia I got that $p_n \approx n \left(\ln n + \ln \ln n -1 + \frac{\ln \ln n-2}{\ln n}+\frac{6\ln \ln n-( \ln \ln n)^2-11}{\ln^2 n} \right)$. What is a ...
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