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pseudot
Jun12-08, 05:00 PM
Hi,

I have been searching the web for this subject to see if the formula I stumbled on
is out there. This site came up often, so I registered.

Working with tables of the known primes < n and sum of primes < n SumP(n), I was able to
determine that SumP(n) ~ Pi(n^2). See

http://groups.google.com/group/sumprimes/web/sum-of-primes-formulas

Comments are welcome.

Regards,
Pseudot

jim mcnamara
Jun13-08, 06:58 AM
See sum of primes -
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSums.html

-- where n is prime. In general google for 'prime sum'