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For example, the constant π may be defined as the ratio of the length of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The following list includes a decimal expansion and set containing each number, ordered by year of discovery. The column headings may be clicked to sort the table alphabetically, by decimal value, or by set.
Although composite, 145 is a Fermat pseudoprime in sixteen bases with b < 145. In four of those bases, it is a strong pseudoprime: 1, 12, 17, and 144. the Mertens function returns 0. [1] 145 is a pentagonal number [2] and a centered square number. [3]
In mathematics, the word constant conveys multiple meanings. As an adjective, it refers to non-variance (i.e. unchanging with respect to some other value); as a noun, it has two different meanings: A fixed and well-defined number or other non-changing mathematical object, or the symbol denoting it.
In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol, typically a letter, that refers to an unspecified mathematical object. [1] [2] [3] One says colloquially that the variable represents or denotes the object, and that any valid candidate for the object is the value of the variable. The values a variable can take are ...
A powerful number is a positive integer m such that for every prime number p dividing m, p 2 also divides m. Equivalently, a powerful number is the product of a square and a cube, that is, a number m of the form m = a 2 b 3, where a and b are positive integers. Powerful numbers are also known as squareful, square-full, or 2-full.
A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula.
A real number is first-order definable in the language of set theory, without parameters, if there is a formula in the language of set theory, with one free variable, such that is the unique real number such that () holds. [2]
Random variables are usually written in upper case Roman letters, such as or and so on. Random variables, in this context, usually refer to something in words, such as "the height of a subject" for a continuous variable, or "the number of cars in the school car park" for a discrete variable, or "the colour of the next bicycle" for a categorical variable.