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Normal order of an arithmetic function
Type of asymptotic behavior useful in number theory

In number theory, a normal order of an arithmetic function is some simpler or better-understood function which "usually" takes the same or closely approximate values.

Let f be a function on the natural numbers. We say that g is a normal order of f if for every ε > 0, the inequalities

( 1 − ε ) g ( n ) ≤ f ( n ) ≤ ( 1 + ε ) g ( n ) {\displaystyle (1-\varepsilon )g(n)\leq f(n)\leq (1+\varepsilon )g(n)}

hold for almost all n: that is, if the proportion of nx for which this does not hold tends to 0 as x tends to infinity.

It is conventional to assume that the approximating function g is continuous and monotone.

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Examples

  • The Hardy–Ramanujan theorem: the normal order of ω(n), the number of distinct prime factors of n, is log(log(n));
  • The normal order of Ω(n), the number of prime factors of n counted with multiplicity, is log(log(n));
  • The normal order of log(d(n)), where d(n) is the number of divisors of n, is log(2) log(log(n)).

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