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primes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for primes.

Editorial note

Being true for primes does not mean that it's true only for primes.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of primes gathered in one view.

noun

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

noun

The chief or best individual or part.

noun

Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for primes.

noun

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

noun

The chief or best individual or part.

noun

Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.

noun

The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

Example sentences

1

Being true for primes does not mean that it's true only for primes.

2

Game should probably be made a little easier so the intended strategy of chaining primes becomes more viable.

3

Mine though shows primes as a set of sin waves kind of like what the op has.

4

Let P be any common multiple of these primes plus one (for example, P = p1p2...pr+1).

5

That primes your subconscious to think about it overnight (assuming your evening isn't very taxing).

6

He proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes no more than 70,000,000 apart.

7

I made sure to include negatives, 0, positives, and include primes here or there to help avoid issues with multiplication/exponentiation.

8

Specifically, he wrote a computer program to look for primes.

9

I have a few legacy primes for long shots, and a 14mm semi-wide.

10

The first (and deepest) step is to get some bounds on (roughly) how much the density of primes that are k mod m can vary with k.

11

[1] Think of, eg, the Twin Prime conjecture (that there are infinitely many pairs of primes only 2 integers apart).

12

Recently a modified Lagarias-Odlyzko method was used to compute the number of primes up to 10^25, although I believe it requires the Riemann Hypothesis.

Quote examples

1

On Ubuntu, if you install bsdgames, "primes" can generate a list of primes up to (checks) 2^32 (4.29 billion & change).

2

Zhang made a big step in the direction of this "twin primes conjecture", though we're still a long way from proving it.

3

One of them was understanding why it is that there are infinitely many primes - I think I learnt more about what mathematics is in the moment that proof clicked than I have from reading hundreds of discussions of "what is mathematics".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use primes in a sentence?

Being true for primes does not mean that it's true only for primes.

What does primes mean?

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

What part of speech is primes?

primes is commonly used as noun.