Assuming that the Conjecture is true, one can consider the problem of determining the expected size of the total stopping time function . Crandall [28] and Shanks [63] were guided by probabilistic heuristic arguments (like the one described earlier) to conjecture that the average order of should be a constant times ; more precisely, that

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