{ "id": "0906.2132", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-06-11T15:13:10.000Z", "updated": "2009-06-11T15:13:10.000Z", "title": "Computing the Mertens and Meissel-Mertens constants for sums over arithmetic progressions", "authors": [ "Alessandro Languasco", "Alessandro Zaccagnini" ], "comment": "12 pages, 6 tables", "journal": "Experimental Mathematics 19 (2010), 279-284", "doi": "10.1080/10586458.2010.10390624", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We give explicit numerical values with 100 decimal digits for the Mertens constant involved in the asymptotic formula for $\\sum\\limits_{\\substack{p\\leq x p\\equiv a \\bmod{q}}}1/p$ and, as a by-product, for the Meissel-Mertens constant defined as $\\sum_{p\\equiv a \\bmod{q}} (\\log(1-1/p)+1/p)$, for $q \\in \\{3$, ..., $100\\}$ and $(q, a) = 1$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-06-11T15:13:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11-04", "11Y60" ], "keywords": [ "arithmetic progressions", "decimal digits", "asymptotic formula", "explicit numerical values", "by-product" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0906.2132L" } } }