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oblong numbers

oblong numbers is the plural of oblong number.

Meaning of oblong 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...

Questions about oblong numbers

What is oblong numbers the plural of?
Oblong numbers is the plural of oblong number.

Words near oblong numbers in the dictionary

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

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