$\omega(n)$, the number of distinct prime factors of $n$.
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Mertens' theorem: there exists a constant $C$ such that for all $n \ge 2$, $\Bigl| \sum_{p \le n, p\text{ prime}} 1/p - \log \log n \Bigr| \le C$.
Variance bound on $\omega$ around $\log \log N$ (a key step toward Hardy–Ramanujan): there is $C > 0$ such that, for all sufficiently large $N$, $\sum_{x = 1}^N (\omega(x) - \log \log N)^2 \le C \cdot N \log \log N$.
Chebyshev-type step turning the variance bound into a density bound: if $\sum_{x = 1}^N (\omega(x) - \mu)^2 \le C N \mu$, then the proportion of $x \in [1, N]$ with $|\omega(x) - \mu| \ge f_N \sqrt{\mu}$ is at most $C / f_N^2$.
Hardy–Ramanujan theorem (Theorem 4.5.1): for any $f(N) \to \infty$, the proportion of $x \in [1, N]$ with $|\omega(x) - \log \log N| \ge f(N) \sqrt{\log \log N}$ tends to $0$; equivalently, $\omega(x) = (1 + o(1)) \log \log N$ for almost all $x \le N$.