Legendre's constant

English

Etymology

Introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre.

Proper noun

Legendre's constant

  1. (mathematics) 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.
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