non-hypotenuse number

noun

A natural number whose square cannot be written as the sum of two nonzero squares.

Meanings

nounnon-hypotenuse number (plural non-hypotenuse numbers)

plural non-hypotenuse numbers

  1. mathematicsA natural number whose square cannot be written as the sum of two nonzero squares.
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