Carol prime

noun

A Carol number that is also a prime number.

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Meanings

nounCarol prime (plural Carol primes)

plural Carol primes

  1. mathematicsA Carol number that is also a prime number.

    Carol Primes: FareySieve[{(2^#-1)^2-2&}]

    2011, Scott B. Guthery, The Farey Sieve, page 8
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    16,127 The fifth Carol prime of the form (2n – 1)² – 2

    2019, Bruce Pyne, Prime Recreations: An Olio of Curios about Prime Numbers, page 29

    By this approach, the Kynèa primes and the Carol primes can be consider as examples of generated Mersenne primes, with the polynomials f(x) = x² ± 2x − 1.

    2021, Elena Deza, Mersenne Numbers And Fermat Numbers, page 138
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