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Approximations to the Distribution of Primes

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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.

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (March 2011)
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