From: "Christian Bau" 
Subject: Re: Counting primes, and why I'm pissed
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 23:23

In article <3c65f87.0302121256.10cdd65d@posting.google.com>,
jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) wrote:

> With even N, 49 < N <121,
> 
> pi(N) = 
>              floor(N/2) - floor((N-4)/6) - floor((N-16)/10) + 
>              floor((N-16)/30) - floor((N-36)/14) + floor((N-22)/42)
> 
> and if you don't believe that mathematicians are cheats, ask *any*
> mathematician in the world to produce a shorter function for that
> region.

pi(N) = 
              N/2 - floor((N-4)/6) - floor((N-16)/10) + 
              floor((N-16)/30) - floor((N-36)/14) + floor((N-22)/42)

It is shorter. You are so obsessed with yourself, you post this formula 
and claim that no mathematician could improve on it, and even an average 
ten year old could do it.