Extended comment. Robin's criterion, equivalent to RH, is fairly widely known. First, however, his adviser, J.L. Nicolas, came up with [THIS as pdf][1]. The description of this on wikipedia is poor. First, in a procedure invented by Ramanujan for his "superior highly composite numbers," it is easy to show that the smallest value of $\frac{\phi(n)}{n^\delta}$ for $0 < \delta < 1$ occurs when $n = n_\delta$ is a primorial, the product of consecutive primes beginning with 2. Let's see, Rosser and Schoenfeld gave some effective bounds, the way I am writing this comes out $$ \frac{\phi(n)}{n} > \frac{1}{e^\gamma \log \log n + \frac{3}{\log \log n}} $$ So the reasonable question comes, we know we get surprisingly small values of $\frac{\phi(n)}{n}$ when $n$ is a primorial. In that case, is it possible to replace the $3$ by a $0,$ giving $$ \frac{\phi(n)}{n} > \frac{1}{e^\gamma \log \log n } ? $$ And here is the answer: If RH is true, we can drop the 3. On the other hand, if RH is false, the inequality (no 3) is true for infinitely many primorials and false for infinitely many primorials. So, we have a statement equivalent to RH. Next, it is much easier to compute this comparison than Robin's. All you do is let $P$ be a primorial, and calculate $$ \frac{e^\gamma \log \log P \phi(P)}{P} $$ which can be update fairly nicely as each $P$ is multiplied by the next prime. For all known primorials, this quantity strictly increases with $P.$ Since RH says it is below 1, we see the ratio increasing to 1, very pretty. i wrote out my own C++ program. There is, however, an amusing catch. [Michael Planat and colleagues][2] showed that Cramer's conjecture on prime gaps would be violated if the sequence increased forever. Enough for now, let me see if I can find the C++ program and post some early output. p phi(P) / P log(P) exp(gamma) * loglog(P) * phi(P) / P 2 0.5 0.6931471805599453 -0.3263930268425172 3 0.3333333333333333 1.791759469228055 0.3462393386356046 5 0.2666666666666667 3.401197381662155 0.5814026130255172 7 0.2285714285714286 5.347107530717468 0.6825296531368984 11 0.2077922077922078 7.745002803515839 0.7575980132430825 13 0.1918081918081918 10.30995216097738 0.7970469070005248 17 0.1805253569959452 13.14316550503359 0.8282264738589192 19 0.1710240224172113 16.08760448420003 0.8462108841813194 23 0.1635881953555934 19.22309870012918 0.8613001326390455 29 0.1579472231019522 22.59039453011566 0.8770078674522567 31 0.1528521513889861 26.0243817346008 0.8872418245081134 37 0.1487210121622567 29.63529964724503 0.8976791721551992 41 0.1450936704022016 33.34887171394934 0.9062933133274125 43 0.1417193989974993 37.1100718296429 0.9121906541657894 47 0.1387040926358503 40.96021943135295 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0.9912811300185953 Wed Jul 10 15:50:20 PDT 2013 [1]: http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~nicolas/petitsphi83.pdf [2]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3613