Legendre's constant

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Etymology[edit]

Introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre.

Proper noun[edit]

Legendre's constant

  1. (mathematics) A mathematical constant occurring in a formula to approximate the behavior of the prime-counting function π(x), originally chosen to be 1.08366 but now known to be exactly 1.