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Is there any standard (or reasonably standard) notation for the following function?

Basically, it's

∏(n) - ∏(n-1)

or, which is the same thing,

\frac{\Lambda(n)}{\log n}

(where ∏(n) is the Riemann prime counting function and \Lambda(n) is the Von Mangoldt function)

Basically, it's the function that is 1/a if n = p^a, where p is some prime, and 0 otherwise.

I use it all the time, and writing \frac{\Lambda(n)}{\log n} for it is pretty unwieldy. Actually, while on the topic, does it have any sort of standard name?
 
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