Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

legendre's conjecture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
leg-en-dre's -con-jec-ture
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A conjecture stating that there is a prime number between n² and (n+1)² for every positive integer n.

Etymology

Proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre.

Questions

What does legendre's conjecture mean?
A conjecture stating that there is a prime number between n² and (n+1)² for every positive integer n.
Where does legendre's conjecture come from?
Proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre.

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