Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being primal.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being prime
- n. mathematics The condition of being a prime number
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The quality or state of being primal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of being a prime number
Examples
“One of them is unlucky and gets all the hard cases (the times for primality tests vary wildly), so the other kernel sits mostly idle — not what you want in a parallel computation.”
Wolfram Blog : The Evolution of Parallel Computing with Mathematica
“In the first run, we schedule a range of primality tests individually onto two available kernels.”
Wolfram Blog : The Evolution of Parallel Computing with Mathematica
“For Alex to dismiss the primality of the concerns of the US, whose nationals were the majority of the victims, and who were the real targets of this crime, is further indication of the bovine anti-US animus that exists among so many in Britain.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“For example, if I say all primes are odd, you could cite the number two as a counterexample since it satisfies the condition of primality but is not odd.”
Your Zip Code or Yourself, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“You said that P+1 would necessarily be prime, but the definition of primality is not contingent.”
Slightly off-topic--Danica McKellar: math education advocate - The Panda's Thumb
“I was lucky enough to share the early hours of labor in their Brooklyn apartment, and was struck by the primality of the event.”
“Sometimes you have to appreciate cruel, unspeakable primality even under the most mundane conditions.”
“I'm convinced the only way to get through this project is with pure primality.”
“Then, quite suddenly, one day I stepped out of the peace of manless primality into the presence of man -- and peace was gone.”
“The terrible primality of murder accords more easily with the elemental gregariousness of slum existence; its horror is accentuated, by force of contrast, in the tender simplicity of an”
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