composite number
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A (nonzero) natural number that is expressible as the product of two (or more) natural numbers other than itself and 1.
Example Sentences
- "It is evident, moreover, that if a composite number terminates in any one of the digits 1, 3, 7, 9, no one of its factors can be the number 5, or any number ending in 5."
- "The above remark applies also to many composite numbers which are not Carmichael numbers, but which are still not shown to be composite by Fermat's theorem for a specific base a.[…]Therefore, using Euler's criterion or a strong primality test with enough bases will finally reveal any composite number or, alternatively, prove the primality of any prime N."
- "It is interesting that in each interval composite numbers are one-to-one assigned to the comparable composite knots while prime numbers are one-to-one assigned to prime knots."