The Buchstab function
is defined by the delay differential equation
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(1)
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(Panario 1998). It approaches the asymptotic value as
, where
is the Euler-Mascheroni
constant. It has nearly reached this value already by
.
For ,
let
be the number of positive integers
whose prime divisors
all exceed
.
Then
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(2)
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as
(Drappeau and Mounier 2026).