High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In number theory, an arithmetic (or arithmetical) function is a real or complex valued function (n) defined on the set of natural numbers (i.e. positive integers) that "expresses some arithmetical property of n. An example of an arithmetic function is the non-principal character (mod 4) defined by where is the Kronecker symbol. To emphasise that they are being thought of as functions rather than sequences, values of an arithmetic function are usually denoted by a(n) rather than an. There is a larger class of number-theoretic functions that do not fit the above definition, e.g. the prime-counting functions. This article provides links to functions of both classes.

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