How to Use integer in a Sentence

integer

noun

• Both 10 and -10 are integers.
• The scale used to measure earthquakes is logarithmic, so each integer is a factor of 10.
  — Gary Solar, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
• This proves a simple fact of number theory: For every integer n, $latex \frac{n(n-1)}{2}$ is an integer.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
• They can be written in the form 2n – 1 where n is an integer.
  — Valencia Prashad, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The answer to the question from last year: 67 integers.
  — Christopher Mele, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• Fermions have a half-integer spin: 1/2, 3/2, and so on.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• This means the distance from one integer to the next is a difference by a factor of 10.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The rule is this: the circumference of the ball should be equal to a half integer number of wavelengths.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• With Gaussian integers, the whole notion of what counts as prime changed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• When there are two or more unknowns, as is the case here, only the integers are studied.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
• On top of that, the ratios of those intervals are not neat integers.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
• Then the code turns the color code integer into something that makes the change in the Unity engine.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2022
• There is no such thing as half a hole, the topologist would note, and the number of holes only changes stepwise in integers.
  — Dennis Overbye and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
• In other words, one of the best six-cylinder engines in the history of integers greater than five, but less than seven.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
• The first string contained the AES key to decrypt code that would then find an integer encoded into the second string.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• So the collection of all fractions of two integers are countable.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• The only thing that was normal here was the degree to which the integers of class and privilege in America got all scrambled.
  — Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
• The Berry curvature of that space was now given by 2πC, with C denoting an integer known as the first Chern number.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• And the sterile nature of code is exactly what slang—a language that lives in the thin threshold between integers—was designed to elude.
  — Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
• In this case, each doll is an integer added to a fraction whose denominator is the next smallest figurine in the sequence.
  — Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
• It has long been known that a Sidon set cannot be an asymptotic basis of order 2, where any integer can be expressed as the sum of at most two numbers.
  — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2023
• The integers — all the positive and negative counting numbers — don’t form a field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
• Don’t hold out hope for integer scaling coming to older graphics chips, though.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 3 Sep. 2019
• Any of the Steinitz-type proofs will tell you not only that there is a polyhedron but also that there’s a polyhedron with integers for the coordinates of the vertices.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2018
• An irrational number is one that cannot be expressed by a fraction of integers, or whole numbers.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
• Lenstra next imagined all the integers as an infinite set of grid points, known in mathematics as a lattice.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• The converse says that, given an integer q, if the number aq–a is divisible by q for any integer a, then q must be a prime number.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Pixel art fans will be pleased to hear that Nvidia is introducing GPU integer scaling with this new driver.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
• This means that the vector location of the object always consists of components that are integers.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
• Type checking involves assigning a data type—such as an integer, string, character, or float, to name a few—to a value.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024