highly composite number

短语

词形变化

highly composite numbers 复数 highly composite numbers

别名

HCN

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A positive integer that has more divisors than any smaller positive integer.

    数学
  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see highly, composite number; A positive integer that has a relatively large number of divisors.

词源

Coined by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1915, although it has been suggested that Plato may have known of the concept, since he specified 5040 (a highly composite number) as the ideal number of citizens in a city.

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