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Erdös-Borwein constant

The Erdős-Borwein constant is the sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne numbers.

By definition it is:

It can be proved that the following forms are equivalent to the former:

where represents a multiplicative function, the number of positive divisors of the number .

Paul Erdős showed that the constant E is an irrational number.