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We establish an analog of the Hardy-Ramanujan inequality for counting members of sifted sets with a given number of distinct prime factors. In particular, we establish a bound for the number of shifted primes p+a below x with k distinct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Kevin Ford

We introduce a new set of prime numbers functions including an exact Generating Function and a Discriminating Function of Prime Numbers neither based on prime number tables nor on algorithms. Instead these functions are defined in terms of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Eduardo Stella , Celso L Ladera , Guillermo Donoso

The prime-counting function $\pi(x)$ which computes the number of primes smaller or equal to a given real number has a long-standing interest in number theory. The present manuscript proposes a method to compute $\pi(x)$ with time…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Yuri Heymann

Computer experiments reveal that twin primes tend to center on nonsquarefree multiples of 6 more often than on squarefree multiples of 6 compared to what should be expected from the ratio of the number of nonsquarefree multiples of 6 to the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Waldemar Puszkarz

For $k \geq 2$, we consider the number $A_k(Z)$ of positive integers $n \leq Z$ such that both $n$ and $n+1$ are $k$-free. We prove an asymptotic formula $A_k(Z) = c_k Z + O(Z^{14/(9k)+\epsilon})$, where the error term improves upon…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Rainer Dietmann , Oscar Marmon

We study a class of approximations to the Riemann zeta function introduced earlier by the second author on the basis of Euler product. This allows us to justify Euler Product Sieve for generation of prime numbers. Also we show that Bounded…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Di Liu , Yuri Matiyasevich , Joseph Oesterlé , Alexandru Zaharescu

We show that if besides the primes some other sequences (involving the Liouville function and the primes) have a common distribution level exceeding 0.7231 then for any positive even integer $h$ there are arbitrarily long arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Janos Pintz

This 1964 paper developed as an off-shoot to the foundational query: Do we discover the natural numbers (Platonically), or do we construct them linguistically? The paper also assumes computational significance in the light of Agrawal, Kayal…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupinder Singh Anand

Wright proved that there exists a number $c$ such that if $g_0 = c$ and $g_{n+1} = 2^{g_n}$, then $\lfloor g_n \rfloor$ is prime for all $n > 0$. Wright gave $c = 1.9287800$ as an example. This value of $c$ produces three primes, $\lfloor…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Robert Baillie

A classification of twin primes implies special twin primes. When applied to triplets, it yields exceptional prime number triplets. These generalize yielding exceptional prime number multiplets.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-16 H. J. Weber

We relate the size of the error term in the Hardy-Littlewood conjectured formula for the number of prime pairs to the $L^{1}$ norm of an exponential sum over the primes formed with the von Mangoldt function.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Leon Chou , Summer Haag , Jake Huryn , Andrew Ledoan

In this paper, we used the principle of sieve function transformation to improve sieve method and the prime number theorem in the arithmetic sequence.For this, we proved General Riemann Hypothesis and Riemann Hypothesis to be true. further,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Jinzhu Han

We prove that for all $n\geq 1$ there exists a number between $n^2$ and $(n+1)^2$ with at most 4 prime factors. This is the first result of this kind that holds for every $n\geq 1$ rather than just sufficiently large $n$. Our approach…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Adrian W. Dudek , Daniel R. Johnston

In this paper, a new formula for {\pi}^(2)(N) is formulated, it is a function that counts the number of semi-primes not exceeding a given number N. A semi-prime is a natural number that is the product of precisely two prime numbers, the two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Suyash Garg

Using a sieve-theoretic argument, we show that almost all gaps $(p_n, p_{n+1})$ between consecutive primes $p_n, p_{n+1}$ contain a natural number $m$ whose least prime factor $p(m)$ is at least the length $p_{n+1} - p_n$ of the gap,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ayla Gafni , Terence Tao

Erdos conjectured that every odd number greater than one can be expressed as the sum of a squarefree number and a power of two. Subsequently, Odlyzko and McCranie provided numerical verification of this conjecture up to $10^7$ and $1.4\cdot…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Christian Hercher

We develop the foundations of a general framework for producing optimal upper and lower bounds on the sum $\sum_p a_p$ over primes $p$, where $(a_n)_{x/2<n\le x}$ is an arbitrary non-negative sequence satisfying Type I and Type II…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Kevin Ford , James Maynard

We study some essential arithmetic properties of a new tree-based number representation, {\em hereditarily binary numbers}, defined by applying recursively run-length encoding of bijective base-2 digits. Our representation expresses giant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Paul Tarau

Translation from the Latin original "Utrum hic numerus 1000009 sit primus necne inquiritur" (1778). E699 in the Enestrom index. The idea of this paper is that if some number is a sum of two squares in two ways, then some other smaller…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2008-08-23 Leonhard Euler

This paper presents a new distributed approach for generating all prime numbers in a given interval of integers. From Eratosthenes, who elaborated the first prime sieve (more than 2000 years ago), to the current generation of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Gabriel Paillard , Christian Lavault , Felipe Franca