primeCountTest.frink

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/** This program counts the prime numbers less than or equal to
    10^n for integer values of n.   This can be used to reproduce
    the table at:

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeCountingFunction.html

    It also compares it to the Riemann prime count estimate.
*/


use RiemannPrime.frink

nextExp = 1
nextNum = 10^nextExp
count = 0

println["Exp\ttrue\testimate\terror"]
for p = primes[]
{
    if p > nextNum
    {
       estimate = round[primeCount[nextNum]]
       error = 1. (estimate-count)/count
       println["$nextExp\t$count\t$estimate\t" + formatSci[error, 1, 3]]
       nextExp = nextExp + 1
       nextNum = 10^nextExp
    }
    count = count + 1
}


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