Normal order of an arithmetic function

In number theory, a normal order of an arithmetic function is some simpler or better-understood function which "usually" takes the same or closely approximate values.

Let ƒ be a function on the natural numbers. We say that g is a normal order of ƒ if for every ε > 0, the inequalities

hold for almost all n: that is, if the proportion of n ≤ x for which this does not hold tends to 0 as x tends to infinity.

It is conventional to assume that the approximating function g is continuous and monotone.

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