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ideal numbers

ideal numbers is the plural of ideal number.

Meaning of ideal number

Noun

ideal number (plural ideal numbers)

  1. An algebraic integer that represents an ideal in the ring of integers of a number field.
    • This symbolic representation of ideal numbers is very convenient, and tends to abbreviate many demonstrations.
      Every ideal number is a divisor of an actual number, and, indeed, of an infinite number of actual numbers. Also, if the ideal number ϕ(α) be a divisor of the actual number F(α), the...1861, H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part II, Report of the Thirtieth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, June-July 1860, British Association for...

Questions about ideal numbers

What is ideal numbers the plural of?
Ideal numbers is the plural of ideal number.

Words near ideal numbers in the dictionary

  1. ideal gas law
  2. ideal gases
  3. ideal mixture
  4. ideal mixtures
  5. ideal number
  6. ideal numbers
  7. ideal point
  8. ideal points
  9. ideal polyhedra
  10. ideal polyhedron
  11. ideal polyhedrons

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