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MathNerd
May5-04, 10:53 PM
I don't know if this identity has been found before but I have never seen it before in my study of Merten's function, so I believe this to be original. I derived the following interesting identity involving Merten's function

\sum_{ 1 \leq n \leq p - 1 } M( \frac {p}{n} ) = 0, \ \forall \ p \ \epsilon \ \Re

where M(x) is Merten's function.

Tell me your thoughs ... :smile:

geraldmcgarvey
Jun19-04, 01:10 AM
See
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MertensFunction.html
Sum n=1..x M(x/n) = 1 (Lehman 1960)

[How do you get the graphic version, do you submit it
in Latex format and this web site does the rest?]

Muzza
Jun19-04, 06:11 AM
geraldmcgarvey, you enclose it in [ tex] [ /tex] tags (no spaces though). You can also click on any LaTeX graphic to see the code that generated it.