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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
Let V(x) denote the number of distinct values not exceeding x taken by Euler's ø-function, so that we have π(x) ≤ V(x) ≤ x. It was shown by Erdős and Hall [1] that for each fixed B > 2√(2/log 2), the estimate

holds; moreover we stated that the ratio V(x)/π(x) tends to infinity with x, faster than any fixed power of log log x. Our aim in the present paper is to prove the following result.