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Bertelsen's Number

An erroneous value of $\pi(10^9)$, where $\pi(x)$ is the Prime Counting Function. Bertelsen's value of 50,847,478 is 56 lower than the correct value of 50,847,534.


References

Brown, K. S. ``Bertelsen's Number.'' http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath049.htm.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26