On the Changes of Sign of a Certain Error Function

Paul Erdös; Harold N. Shapiro

doi:10.4153/CJM-1951-043-3

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Though much effort has been expended in studying the mean values of arithmetic functions there is one case which has not yielded a great deal either to elementary or analytic methods. The case to which we refer is that of estimating

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