Holy prime producing patterns, batman!
Simon Plouffe has found a formula which produces 50 prime numbers in a row:

a(0) = 10^500 + 961
a(n+1) = a(n)^(101/100)

⌊aₙ⌋ is a prime number for the first 50 n!

Paper on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/1901.01849

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