Questions about primes made from consecutive numbers starting from 1

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Let $b_n=\overline{a_1a_2a_3\dots a_n}$ and $a_n=n$. For example $b_{11}= 1234567891011$. I have a couple of questions about the primes in the sequence $b_n$.

  1. What is the lowest number $n$ such that $b_n$ is prime (if there is is an $n$)?
  2. Are there infintely many primes in the sequence $b_n$?
  3. Do these primes have a name?

The first question was an excercise in Clifford Pickover's A Passion For Mathematics. I don't know if there is a way to find the answer to the first question without using a computer.

Like in Does there exist a prime that is only consecutive digits starting from 1?, $n$ cannot be an even number (or else $b_n$ would be even). Thanks.