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An analogue of a problem of Littlewood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

J. V. Armitage
J. V. Armitage
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London, W.C.2.
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Littlewood posed the following problem: for each pair of real numbers, θ and φ, and each ε > 0, is there a positive integer n such that

where ‖α‖ denotes the difference between a and the nearest integer.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , June 1969 , pp. 101 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1969

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