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We obtain an effective lower bound for ‖(4/3)k‖, where ‖·‖ denotes the distance to the nearest integer.
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Original Russian Text © Yu. A. Pupyrev, 2009, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2009, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 927–935.
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Pupyrev, Y.A. Effectivization of a lower bound for ‖(4/3)k‖. Math Notes 85, 877–885 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434609050289
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