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Skewes' number
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Etymology
Named after South African mathematician Stanley Skewes.
Noun
en number theory Any of several extremely large numbers used as upper bounds for the smallest natural number for which , where is the prime-counting function and is the logarithmic integral function. These bounds have since been improved by others.
en Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics 9-10 1976 A. Ross Eckler 178 With this extension, the number system exceeds a number of previously-named giants, such as Archimedes' largest number, Kasner's googolplex, Skewes' number and Candelaria's googoltriplex.
Translations
Finnish: fi Skewesin luku
Polish: pl liczba Skewesa f
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