Does there exist an irrational number such that every time it is multiplied by 100 its integer part gives a prime number?
ϕ=0,a0a1a2a3⋯
⌊102nϕ⌋∈P,∀n∈N
Or in a more general way multiply by 10p.n, where p is a fixed prime number.
For example, let ϕ=0,1163⋯
⌊102ϕ⌋=11
And ⌊104ϕ⌋=1163
While 11 and 1163 are primes, 63 by itself is not. So, a2ia2i+1 is not necessarily prime for i∈N
Answer
This is similar to right-truncatable primes, but removing two decimal digits at a time.
Equivalently, we are looking for right-truncatable primes in base 100. http://oeis.org/A076586 tells us that there are exactly 9823399067 such primes. Hence there is no infinite example and no such irrational number.
For the more general question of multiplying by 10p⋅n, we can note that the natural density of primes is 0, and that arbitrarily large prime gaps exists, to conclude that the number of right-truncatable primes in any given base is almost certainly finite. However, I don't believe a proof exists. See for example Proof for finite number of truncatable primes .
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