Re: getting nth prime

From: <tomstdenis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 18:54:55 CEST

Dhairyas wrote:
> Ok see pi(x) === x/ln(x) so how to compute it to EXACT

You're a newbie to ascii math... let me help

= equal
:= assign
== congruent
~ approximate to
^ can be XOR or exponentiation depending on the context
** is always exponentiation

Then there is the series of TeX math like \sum_{base}^{limit} and what
not...

so pi(x) ~ x/ln(x) not ===

Tom
Received on Mon May 1 02:05:42 2006