primorials
primorials is the plural of primorial.
Meaning of primorial
Noun
primorial (plural primorials)
- Any number belonging to the integer sequence whose nth element is the product of the first n primes.
- For example, up to 10⁹, every positive integer which is a multiple of a primorial and is less than the following primorial satisfies the given inequality. There has also been little discussion on which primorials qualify in the different situations when RH fails.2017, Kevin Broughan, Equivalents of the Riemann Hypothesis: Volume 1, Arithmetic Equivalents, Cambridge University Press, page 97
- Synonyms:
- primorial number
- A unary operation, denoted by the postfix symbol # and defined on the nonnegative integers, which maps 0 to 1, 1 to 1, and each subsequent number to the product of all primes less than or equal to it; the value mapped to by said operation for a given input.
- The primorial of 6 is #92;textstyle 6#92;#35;#61;2#92;times 3#92;times 5#61;30.
Questions about primorials
- What is primorials the plural of?
- Primorials is the plural of primorial.
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