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Sometimes patterns can lead you astray. For example, it’s known that is a good approximation to the number of primes less than or equal to Numerical evidence suggests that is always greater than For example, But in 1914, Littlewood heroically showed that in fact, changes sign infinitely many times! This raised the question: when does first exceed ? In 1933, Littlewood’s student Skewes showed, assu