How to Use prime number in a Sentence

prime number

noun

• There’s a p-adic number system for each prime number: the 2-adics, the 3-adics, the 5-adics, and so on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
• What even number is not the result of two prime numbers?
  — Jared Beasley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Rather than guess a six-letter word, the goal of Primel is to guess a five-digit prime number in just six tries.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2022
• There's also a fear of the prime number called triskaidekaphobia.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• Gaussian primes are prime numbers that can’t be written as a sum of two perfect squares.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2019
• For example, the prime number three is two squared, minus one.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• The typical notion of a prime number doesn’t make sense for finite fields.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2019
• In reality, the prime number is large, and so are the other numbers.
  — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2013
• And when the parties return to the real world and talks turn to a sequel, expect to see a lot of zeroes behind a prime number or two.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• The background software running on the computer unearthed a rare kind of prime number called a Mersenne prime.
  — Valencia Prashad, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The twin primes conjecture concerns pairs of prime numbers with a difference of 2.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• What are the prime numbers that multiply together to make 667?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• Interest in prime numbers goes back thousands of years.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
• Equivalently, if xN − x is not a multiple of N, then N can’t be a prime number.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• If correct, then the placement of prime numbers along the number line never deviates too much from the prime number set.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
• Like a normal prime number, these can only be divided by themselves and one.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2018
• But Cooley says this theory is flawed: Cicadas don’t have 11- or 19-year cycles, yet these are prime numbers, too.
  — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 3 June 2020
• On Prime day, addresses that contain a prime number may water.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The fact that 97 is a prime number—divisible only by 1 or itself—is supposed to make the system more secure.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Groups that have no normal subgroups are called simple groups and cannot be broken down any further, just as prime numbers can’t be factored.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• The hope was to hear a succession of uniform pulses or perhaps a numbering system, like a series of prime numbers.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2018
• One thing and like, easy way to screw these large language models up is ask them about prime numbers, things that human beings can understand pretty well.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 25 May 2023
• The prime numbers — those divisible only by 1 and themselves — are at its core, much as DNA is core to biology.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Since each prime number can only be divided by 1 and itself, the set of all prime numbers is one example of a primitive set.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2022
• Not all mysteries about prime numbers have been solved, however.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• So on an average, for someone that did not have a credit score, by establishing their credit scores at a prime number around that 670 range.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Arithmetic progressions are involved in the study of prime numbers, the elusive building blocks of number theory.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• Your work has dealt with two prominent related problems about prime numbers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2017
• Elliptic curves also have a lot to do with prime numbers, which are only divisible by 1 and themselves.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• An irreducible polynomial — one that can’t be factored — is the analogue of a prime number.
  — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024