# Is Skewes' number e^e^e^79 an integer?

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 Posted by: VladimirReshetnikov on: December 13th, 2011

\begin{conjecture} % Enter your conjecture in LaTeX % You may change "conjecture" to "question" or "problem" if you prefer. Skewes' number $e^{e^{e^{79}}}$ is not an integer. \end{conjecture}

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## Bibliography

Skewes, S. (1933), "On the difference $\pi(x) − Li(x)$", Journal of the London Mathematical Society 8: 277–283

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### Schanuel's conjecture

Assuming \Def[Schanuel's conjecture]{Schanuel's conjecture}, one can show that e^e^e^79 is transcendental.