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Chebyshev-Sylvester Constant


In 1891, Chebyshev and Sylvester showed that for sufficiently large x, there exists at least one prime number p satisfying

 x<p<(1+alpha)x,

where alpha=0.092.... Since the prime number theorem shows the above inequality is true for all alpha>0 for sufficiently large x, this constant is only of historical interest.


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References

Le Lionnais, F. Les nombres remarquables. Paris: Hermann, p. 22, 1983.

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Chebyshev-Sylvester Constant

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Chebyshev-Sylvester Constant." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chebyshev-SylvesterConstant.html

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