Prime counting function π
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia (2013)
- Volume: 5, page 71-76
- ISSN: 2080-9751
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topJan Górowski, and Adam Łomnicki. "Prime counting function π." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia 5 (2013): 71-76. <http://eudml.org/doc/296388>.
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abstract = {The aim of this paper is to derive new explicit formulas for thefunction π, where π(x) denotes the number of primes not exceeding x. Some justifications and generalisations of the formulas obtained by Willans (1964),Minac (1991) and Kaddoura and Abdul-Nabi (2012) are also obtained.},
author = {Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki},
journal = {Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia},
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