Prime power Prime power In mathematics, a prime power is a positive integer power of a single prime number. For example: , and are prime powers, while , and are not. The number 1 is not counted as a prime power. The prime powers are: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 41, 43, 47, 49, 53, 59, 61, 64, 67, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 121, 125, 127, 128, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, 169, 173, 179, 181, 191,
Prime number theorem Dusart proved: The proof by de la Vallée Poussin implies the following. For every , there is an such that for all , As a consequence of the prime number theorem, one gets an asymptotic expression for the th prime number, denoted by : A better approximation is Again considering the th prime number , this gives an estimate of ; the first 5 digits match and relative error is about 0.00005%. Rosser's theorem states that This can be improved by the following pair of bounds: The table compares exact values of to the two approximations and . The last