Solution

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Let and choose
with fixed positive chosen so that the rectangle up to height lies inside the Zero-free region of the Riemann zeta function. Move the Perron contour from to . The only singularity crossed is the simple pole at of , whose residue contributes .
The standard bound in this zero-free rectangle gives
The two horizontal sides are , and the truncation error from part a is . Polynomial factors in can be absorbed by slightly reducing the exponential constant. Thus some satisfies
This is the Prime number theorem with classical zero-free-region error.
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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