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We establish the asymptotic distribution of the set of natural numbers in the interval [1, x] relatively prime to the corresponding value of an additive arithmetic function. The bibliography contains seven references.
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Translated from Mathematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 259–268, March, 1972.
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Fainleib, A.S. On the relative primality of n andf (n). Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 11, 163–168 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098518
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098518