English Explanatory Dictionary

Legendre's constant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A mathematical constant occurring in a formula to approximate the behavior of the prime-counting function π(x), originally chosen to be 1.08366 but now known to be exactly 1.

Word forms

Legendre's constant

Etymology

Introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre.

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