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Empirical Data on Hilbert‘s Inequality
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Empirical Data on Hilbert‘s Inequality

  • E. H. COPSEY1,
  • H. FRAZER1 &
  • W. W. SAWYER1 

Nature volume 161, page 361 (1948)Cite this article

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Abstract

IT is known that π being the best possible constant, and it has recently been shown by H. Frazer1 that .

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  • J. Lond. Math. Soc., 21 (1946).

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    E. H. COPSEY, H. FRAZER & W. W. SAWYER

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COPSEY, E., FRAZER, H. & SAWYER, W. Empirical Data on Hilbert‘s Inequality. Nature 161, 361 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161361b0

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