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Chen prime

Chen prime noun: any prime number p such that p+2 is either a semiprime or another prime.

Noun

Chen prime (plural Chen primes)

  1. Any prime number p such that p+2 is either a semiprime or another prime.
    • She tried counting Chen primes. 2, 3, 5... 7, 11... 13... 17... She couldn't concentrate.2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Haughton Mifflin Harcourt (New Harvest), page 278
    • There are even magic square of primes, like this one containing Chen primes discovered by Rudolf Ondrejka:[…]2014, Christian Bessiere et al., “Reasoning about Constraint Methods”, in Duc-Nghia Pham, Seong-Bae Park, editors, PRICAI 2014: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, page 804

Forms of Chen prime

pluralChen primes

Origin of Chen prime

Named after Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun, who proved in 1966 that there are infinitely many such numbers.

Questions about Chen prime

What does Chen prime mean?
Chen prime means any prime number p such that p+2 is either a semiprime or another prime.
What part of speech is Chen prime?
Chen prime is a noun.
What is the plural of Chen prime?
The plural of Chen prime is Chen primes.

Words near Chen prime in the dictionary

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