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unprimeable

unprimeable adjective: that cannot be turned into a prime number by changing just one of its digits to any other digit.

Adjective

unprimeable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be turned into a prime number by changing just one of its digits to any other digit.
    • In the year 200 Diophantus, noted Greek mathematician was born. 200 million is approximately 2/3 of the total population of this country we call home. 200 is also the smallest base 10 unprimeable number.2007 May 26, “Episode #200”, in Game Show Newsnet
    • 6,292,015 is a composite, Duffinian, odd, semiprime, square-free and unprimeable number.2015 June 29, “Brain-O Quiz Answers”, in Mathematical Mystery Tour
  2. That cannot be primed.
    • In this count, the Syntactic sentences actually had more "unprimeable" words than the Random, 86 versus 74.1989, Cyma K. Van Petten, Context Effects in Word Recognition, page 215
    • General purpose of materialman's lien statutes is to give contractors a lien that is unprimeable by subsequently entered consensual mortgage agreements.1999, “C.A.6(Ky.) 1996”, in West's Federal Practice Digest, volume 77, number 4, West Publishing Company

Forms of unprimeable

alternative formunprimable

Questions about unprimeable

What does unprimeable mean?
Unprimeable means that cannot be turned into a prime number by changing just one of its digits to any other digit.
What part of speech is unprimeable?
Unprimeable is an adjective.

Words near unprimeable in the dictionary

  1. unpriggish
  2. unpriggishly
  3. unpriggishness
  4. unprimable
  5. unprime
  6. unprimeable
  7. unprimed
  8. unprimes
  9. unpriming
  10. unprimitive
  11. unprinced

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