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Skewes number

Skewes number

[′skyüz ‚nəm·bər]
(mathematics)
The first integer n for which the number of primes not greater than n is greater than the Cauchy principal value of the integral over x from 0 to n of the reciprocal of the natural logarithm of x.
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