OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The data was calculated by Martinez and Zeilberger (2023).
LINKS
Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1028 (from the paper by Koutschan et al.)
Noga Alon and Yaakov Malinovsky, Hitting a prime in 2.43 dice rolls (on average), The American Statistician, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2023), pp. 301-303; arXiv preprint, arXiv:2209.07698 [math.PR], 2022-2023.
Noga Alon, Yaakov Malinovsky, Lucy Martinez, and Doron Zeilberger, Hitting k primes by dice rolls, arXiv:2502.08096 [math.PR], 2025.
Shane Chern, Hitting a prime by rolling a die with infinitely many faces, The American Statistician (2024); arXiv preprint, arXiv:2306.14073 [math.NT], 2023.
Anirban DasGupta, Student Puzzle Corner 17 (and solution to SPC16), IMS Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2017), p. 7; entire issue.
Anirban DasGupta, Student Puzzle Corner 18 (and solution to Puzzle 17), IMS Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 5 (2017), p. 9; entire issue.
Christoph Koutschan, Tipaluck Krityakierne, and Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda, When Does the Dice Sum Become Prime?, arXiv:2605.13666 [math.PR], 2026.
Yaakov Malinovsky and Noga Alon, Hitting a prime in 2.43 dice rolls (on average), Rutgers Experimental Mathematics Seminar, November 17, 2022.
Lucy Martinez and Doron Zeilberger, How many Dice Rolls Would It Take to Reach Your Favorite Kind of Number?, Maple Transactions, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2023), Article 15953; arXiv preprint, arXiv:2302.00143 [math.CO], 2023.
Doron Zeilberger, How many Dice Rolls Would It Take to Reach Your Favorite Kind of Number?, Maple packages, 2023.
EXAMPLE
2.428497913693504230366081906242299271634201831344711...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Feb 16 2024
EXTENSIONS
a(22) onward corrected using the paper by Koutschan et al. by Amiram Eldar, May 17 2026
STATUS
approved
