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oblong number

oblong number noun: a rectangular number.

Noun

oblong number (plural oblong numbers)

  1. A rectangular number.
    • If, however, the sides differ otherwise than by 1, for instance, by 2, 3, 4 or succeeding numbers, as in 2 times 4, 3 times 6, 4 times 8, or however else they may differ, then no longer will such a number be properly called a heteromecic, but an oblong number. For the ancients of the school of...1952 [c. 100], Nicomachus of Gerasa, translated by Martin Luther D’Ooge, edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Wallace Brockway, Introduction to Arithmetic II (Great Books Of The...

Forms of oblong number

pluraloblong numbers

Questions about oblong number

What does oblong number mean?
Oblong number means a rectangular number.
What part of speech is oblong number?
Oblong number is a noun.
What is the plural of oblong number?
The plural of oblong number is oblong numbers.

Words near oblong number in the dictionary

  1. Oblomovism
  2. Oblomovist
  3. Oblomovists
  4. Oblomovitis
  5. oblong
  6. oblong number
  7. oblong numbers
  8. oblonga
  9. oblongata
  10. oblongatal
  11. oblongatas

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