What is the biggest tangent of a prime?
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 Published On Aug 19, 2020

What is your Mega-Favourite Number? The playlist of #MegaFavNumbers videos is here:
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Here is my current mega-favourite number:
1,169,809,367,327,212,570,704,813,632,106,852,886,389,036,911

This is the OEIS page for A249836: Numbers n for which tan(n) is greater than n.
https://oeis.org/A249836

Thanks very much to Jacob Vecht for emailing me their new interesting integer. Keep an eye out for when all their newly discovered numbers appear on the OEIS.

These are the ones I found:
tan(1) = 1.6
tan(11) = -226
tan(33) = -75.3
tan(52174) = -181570.3
tan(260515) = 383610.7
tan(573204) = -3402633.8
tan(37362253) = 37754853.4
tan(42781604) = -85369290.4
tan(122925461) = 326900723.5

My terrible code is on github.
https://github.com/standupmaths/prime...

CORRECTIONS
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