Biases in the shanks-rénvi prime number race

Experimental Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 535-570

  Feuerverger, Andrey ^a   Martin, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chebyshev's bias; Comparative prime number theory; Primes in arithmetic progressions; Shanks Renyi race

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034348624     PISSN: 10586458     EISSN: 1944950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10586458.2000.10504659     Document Type: Article

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