EXPLORING THE COUNTING FUNCTION OF SEMIPRIMES

Volume 19 No 11 (2021)

VELPULA VENKATESWARLU,YALAM SRAVANI

DOI: 10.48047/NQ.2021.19.11.NQ21295

Abstract

A semiprime is a natural number which can be written as the product of two primes. The asymptotic behaviour of the function π2(x), the number of semiprimes less than or equal to x, is studied. Using a combinatorial argument, asymptotic series of π2(x) is determined, with all the terms explicitly given. An algorithm for the calculation of the constants involved in the asymptotic series is presented and the constants are computed to 20 significant digits. The errors of the partial sums of the asymptotic series are investigated. A generalization of this approach to products of k primes, for k ≥ 3, is also proposed.

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