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206 Chapter 4 PRIMALITY PROVING<br />

1962] that the product of the primes in [1,x] exceeds 2 x when x ≥ 41. More<br />

simply, and more strongly, the Chebyshev-type estimate of Exercise 1.28 gives<br />

<br />

p≤x p>2x when x ≥ 31. Now the product of the primes dividing N is at<br />

most N, and<br />

N lg 2 n, it would seem then that we

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