Erdős problem 291
More generally, if the leading digit of in base is then . There is in fact a necessary and sufficient condition: a prime divides if and only if divides the numerator of , where is the leading digit of in base . This can be seen by writing and observing that the right-hand side is congruent to modulo . (The previous claim about follows immediately from Wolstenholme's theorem.)
Sources
FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/
291.lean
Retained formal statement
In particular, there should be infinitely many , but the set of such should have density zero. Unfortunately this heuristic is difficult to turn into a proof.
Filter.Tendsto (fun N => ↑{n ∈ Finset.Icc 1 N | (Erdos291.a n).gcd (Erdos291.L n) = 1}.card / ↑N) Filter.atTop (nhds 0)OpenStatement only, no proof