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- adjective Attributive form of
prime number , noun.
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Examples
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And now, after moments of deep research and investigation, I see that ‘last year’, you were a prime-number age, seemingly your favorites.
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A screen alongside flickered through mutable figures as a computer program applied scheme after scheme - mathematical relationships, prime-number arrays, stochastic formulas, anything, anything that might give the binary inflow a pattern, the germ of a meaning.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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Eight years ago, after noticing that all of Real Madrid's better players wore prime-number shirts "Carlos was No 3, Zidane No 5, Raoul No 7 and Beckham No 23" he persuaded Recreativo Hackney to do the same.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The example used throughout this article is a prime-number counting algorithm that uses a simple brute force test of all dividing each potential prime by all possible factors until a divisor is found or the number is shown to be a prime.
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Back in indie-land after a pair of major-label releases, they take full advantage of their artistic freedom by expanding their synth-driven disco-rock with more experimental songs driven by shifting prime-number time signatures.
Ottawa Sun 2010
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He chats easily about the Riemann hypothesis and its prime-number conundrums, saying he doesn't mind working on problems in his spare time.
unknown title 2008
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Having signed a new building block, Beckham had to be given a prime-number shirt, too. '
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