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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: measures of the `size' of infinite sets
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:30:16 GMT
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- In article <BuBtsw.52B@unx.sas.com> sasrdt@shewhart.unx.sas.com (Randall D. Tobias) writes:
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- >What's the density of the set of prime powers? Ie. how many Galois
- >fields are there?
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- The density of primes near N is about 1/logN. The density of squares,
- never mind squares of primes, is about 1/N^2; the density of cubes etc.
- contributes even less, so the density of powers, hence certainly of
- prime powers other than primes, is about 1/N^2. So the density of
- prime powers overall near N is about 1/logN, because the higher powers
- just don't come into it at all.
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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