Approximations For The nth Prime Number
As a consequence of the prime number theorem, one gets an asymptotic expression for the nth prime number, denoted by pn:
A better approximation is
Rosser's theorem states that pn is larger than n ln n. This can be improved by the following pair of bounds:
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