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waring's problem

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

Syllables
war-ing's prob-lem
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The problem of whether each natural number k has an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s natural numbers raised to the power k.

Etymology

The problem was proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring.

Phrases

Hilbert-Waring theorem

Frequently Paired Words

Hilbert-Waring theorem

Questions

What does waring's problem mean?
The problem of whether each natural number k has an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s natural numbers raised to the power k.
Where does waring's problem come from?
The problem was proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring.

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