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A057752
Difference between nearest integer to Li(10^n) and pi(10^n), where Li(x) = integral of log(x) and pi(10^n) = number of primes <= 10^n (A006880).
10
2, 5, 10, 17, 38, 130, 339, 754, 1701, 3104, 11588, 38263, 108971, 314890, 1052619, 3214632, 7956589, 21949555, 99877775, 222744644, 597394254, 1932355208, 7250186216, 17146907278, 55160980939, 155891678121, 508666658006, 1427745660374, 4551193622464
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
On his prime pages C. K. Caldwell remarks: "However in 1914 Littlewood proved that pi(x)-Li(x) assumes both positive and negative values infinitely often". - Frank Ellermann, May 31 2003
REFERENCES
John H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus, an imprint of Springer-Verlag, NY, 1995, page 146.
Marcus du Sautoy, The Music of the Primes, Fourth Estate / HarperCollins, 2003; see table on p. 90.
LINKS
Chris K. Caldwell, How many primes are there, table, Values of pi(x).
Chris K. Caldwell, How many primes are there, table, Approximations to pi(x).
Xavier Gourdon and Pascal Sebah, Counting the primes
Anatolii A. Karatsuba and Ekatherina A. Karatsuba, The "problem of remainders" in theoretical physics: "physical zeta" function, 6th Mathematical Physics Meeting: Summer School and Conference on Modern Mathematical Physics, 14-23 September 2010, Belgrade, Serbia. [From Internet Archive Wayback Machine]
Y. Saouter and P. Demichel, A sharp region where pi(x)-li(x) is positive, Math. Comp. 79 (272) (2010) 2395-2405. [From R. J. Mathar, Oct 08 2010]
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Prime Counting Function
MATHEMATICA
Table[Round[LogIntegral[10^n] - PrimePi[10^n]], {n, 1, 13}]
PROG
(PARI) A057752=vector(#A006880, i, round(-eint1(-log(10^i))-A006880[i])) \\ M. F. Hasler, Feb 26 2008
(Python)
from sympy import N, li, primepi, floor
def round(n):
return int(floor(n+0.5))
def A057752(n):
return round(N(li(10**n), 10*n)) - primepi(10**n) # Chai Wah Wu, Apr 30 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,hard
AUTHOR
Robert G. Wilson v, Oct 30 2000
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Frank Ellermann, May 31 2003
The value of a(23) is not known at present, I believe. - N. J. A. Sloane, Mar 17 2008
Name corrected and extended for last two terms a(23) and a(24), with Pi(10^n) for n=23 and 24 from A006880, by Vladimir Pletser, Mar 10 2013
a(25)-a(27) added, using data from A006880, by Chai Wah Wu, Apr 30 2018
a(28) added, using data from A006880, by Eduard Roure Perdices, Apr 14 2021
a(29) added, using data from A006880, by Reza K Ghazi, May 10 2022
STATUS
approved