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Counting Primes Today

People all over the world are counting primes, probably even as we speak. See, e.g.,
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/howmany.shtml

http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Primes/Pix/pixproject.html

A huge computation:

$\displaystyle \pi(10^{22}) = 201467286689315906290
$

(I don't know for sure if this is right...)



William A Stein 2001-09-19