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Mullin’s sequence of primes is not monotonic

Mullin’s sequence of primes is not monotonic

The sequence of primes defined by <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="p 1 equals 2"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{p_1} = 2</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> and <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="p Subscript n plus 1 Baseline equals left-parenthesis largest prime factor of …