Example 2:

Prediction of the 300th prime

From Expression (3), given b = 1891, the number of primes within [2, 1891] is counted as

π ( 1891 ) = 4 + 48 × ( 8 + 1 ) i = 1 48 | L b ( i ) | = 4 + 432 146 = 290 .

The 290th prime is 1889, which is located at ( i , k ) = ( 47 , 8 ) as shown in Figure 4. Therefore, the 300th prime is counted to be 1987, at the location of ( i , k ) = ( 21 , 9 ) .