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Gauss 1849 — Letter to Encke, 24 December 1849 (the count made in 1792–93)
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C. F. Gauss (1849). Letter to Encke, 24 December 1849 (the count made in 1792–93). Werke II, 444–447. Cited by its record. License as found: public domain (the author died more than a century ago, or the work was published before 1930). What it gave the chain: the logarithmic integral li(x) as the count of primes - read off the log tables he counted primes in.
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C. F. Gauss (1849), Werke II, 444–447
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WIT.codex.FCT/letter-to-encke-24-december-1849-the-count-made-/REF.WITNESSED@c-f-gauss
adjoining cards
- builds on → Legendre 1798 — Essai sur la théorie des nombres — the logarithmic integral li(x) as the count of primes - read off the log tables he counted
- enables → Riemann 1859 — Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse — zeta continued to the plane, the functional equation, the explicit formula through log zet
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