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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: Distribution of primes mod 4
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.004604.9413@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:46:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.212120.251@leland.Stanford.EDU> ilan@leland.Stanford.EDU (ilan vardi) writes:
- :In article <1993Jan21.141800.17997@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- :>
- :>let u(x) = #{n <= x; pi(n,1,4) < pi(n,3,4)}
- :>
- :>Then one would expect that u(x) = x/2 for almost all x. That is to say,
- :>for large x, about 1/2 the integers less than x have pi(n,1,4) < pi(n,3,4)
- :>and for about 1/2 the integers the inequality is reversed. This can be
- :>made more precise;
- :>
- :>u(x) = x/2 + O(x^{1-epsilon}) for any fixed epsilon.
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- :
- :Yo! This is clearly wrong, and you can't do better than epsilon = 1/2
- :(which is the generalized Riemann Hypothesis). In other words
- :epsilon <= 1/2 in the above term.
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- Yes. I was too hasty. I should have said any fixed epsilon near 0,
- or as you say less than 1/2.
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