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Chebyshev's bias

Chebyshev's bias proper noun: the phenomenon that most of the time, there are more prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 than of the form 4k + 1 up to n.

Proper noun

Chebyshev's bias

  1. The phenomenon that most of the time, there are more prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 than of the form 4k + 1 up to n.
  2. The phenomenon that if a is a quadratic residue modulo q and b is a quadratic nonresidue modulo q, then π(x;b,q)>π(x;a,q) occurs more often than not

Origin of Chebyshev's bias

From Pafnuty Chebyshev, the discoverer.

Questions about Chebyshev's bias

What does Chebyshev's bias mean?
Chebyshev's bias means the phenomenon that most of the time, there are more prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 than of the form 4k + 1 up to n.
What part of speech is Chebyshev's bias?
Chebyshev's bias is a proper noun.

Words near Chebyshev's bias in the dictionary

  1. Chebyshev
  2. Chebyshev distance
  3. Chebyshev distances
  4. Chebyshev space
  5. Chebyshev spaces
  6. Chebyshev's bias
  7. Chebyshev's inequality
  8. Chebyshev's theorem
  9. Chece
  10. Checes
  11. chechako

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