Definition of Composite number. Meaning of Composite number. Synonyms of Composite number

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Definition of Composite number

Composite number
3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Composit[ae]; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.

Meaning of Composite number from wikipedia

- A composite number is a positive integer that can be formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers. Equivalently, it is a positive integer that has...
- highly composite number is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer has. A related concept is that of a largely composite number...
- 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. Six is the smallest positive integer...
- number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number,...
- In number theory, a superior highly composite number is a natural number which, in a particular rigorous sense, has many divisors. Particularly, it is...
- composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, 1 × 5 or 5 × 1, involve 5 itself. However, 4 is composite...
- harmonic divisor number 109,376 = automorphic number 110,880 = highly composite number 111,111 = repunit 111,777 = smallest natural number requiring 17 syllables...
- Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If n is a composite number then so is 2n − 1. Therefore, an equivalent definition of the Mersenne...
- aliquot sequence of only one composite number (35,13,1,0) to the Prime in the 13-aliquot tree. 35 is the second composite number with the aliquot sum 13;...
- natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is the ninth composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly...