Approximations to the Distribution of Primes

The function , the prime-counting function, gives the number of primes less than or equal to . The plots shown are of the differences between and the approximations to due to Gauss, Legendre, and Riemann.


These are the approximations:
Gauss (integral logarithm)
,
Legendre
,
and Riemann
.
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