Posts tagged 'prime-number'

G.283 prime number

A:term:**prime number** <prime-number> is that which is:term:measured <G.253> by an:term:unit <G.247> alone.

G.284 prime number prime

Any prime number is prime to any number which it does not measure.

G.285 numbers multiplying make

If two numbers by multiplying one another make some number, and any prime number measure the product, it will also measure one of the original numbers.

G.287 composite number measured

Any composite number is measured by some prime number.

G.288 number prime measured

Any number either is prime or is measured by some prime number.

G.290 numbers find least

Given two numbers, to find the least number which they measure.

G.296 there many numbers

If there be as many numbers as we please in continued proportion, and the extremes of them be prime to one another, the numbers are the least of those which have the same ratio with them.

G.305 numbers there fall

If between two numbers there fall numbers in continued proportion with them, then, however many numbers fall between them in continued proportion, so many will also fall in continued proportion between the numbers which have the same ratio with the original numbers.

G.323 mean proportional numbers

If two mean proportional numbers fall between two numbers, the numbers are similar solid numbers.

G.342 many numbers please

If as many numbers as we please beginning from an unit be in continued proportion, by however many prime numbers the last is measured, the next to the unit is measured by the same.

G.343 many numbers please

If as many numbers as we please beginning from an unit be in continued proportion, and the number after the unit be prime, the greatest will not be measured by any except those which have a place among the proportional numbers.

G.344 number least measured

If a number be the least that is measured by prime numbers, it will not be measured by any other prime number except those originally measuring it.

G.346 numbers prime number

If two numbers be prime to one another, the second will not be to any other number as the first is to the second.

G.347 there many numbers

If there be as many numbers as we please in continued proportion, and the extremes of them be prime to one another, the last will not be to any other number as the first to the second.

G.349 numbers investigate possible

Given three numbers, to investigate when it is possible to find a fourth proportional to them.

G.350 prime numbers more

Prime numbers are more than any assigned multitude of prime numbers.

G.364 numbers continually doubled

Each of the numbers which are continually doubled beginning from a dyad is even-times even only.

G.370 many numbers please

If as many numbers as we please beginning from an unit be set out continuously in double proportion, until the sum of all becomes prime, and if the sum multiplied into the last make some number, the product is perfect.