Coprimality
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Two integers are coprime if they have no common factors (beside 1), or, equivalently, if their gcd is 1.
A set of integers, e.g. A = {3, -7, 1}
, is relatively prime if there is no integer d
> 1 (i.e. d β βα©α©
), such that d
divides all of them.
Relatively Prime is also called "coprime" or "mutually prime".
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A set of integers is coprime if no integer d
> 1 divides any pair of them.
Therefore, for any two integers these two definitions coincide, but for a larger collection, the property of coprimality is stronger because a set of integers can be relatively prime but not coprime, e.g. (6, 15, -5).
The coprime relation is a relation between (two) integers. It can also be considered a constraint on a set of integers.
Linguistics
coprimeness or coprimality Property/quality/condition of being coprime
The word "coprime", alternatively spelled "co-prime" is a non-comparable adjective. In math, adjectives can be used in phrases like "A and B are coprime", "A is coprime to B", or less commonly, "A is coprime with B".
(number theory) "coprime" may be used to relate two or more natural numbers as having no natural number factors in common (besides 1), as in "24 and 35 are coprime".
(number theory) "coprime" may be used to qualify a natural number having no natural number factors (except for 1) in common with some other natural numbers, as in "10 is coprime to 19".
(algebra) by extension from number theory, one can speak of two or more polynomials whose gcd is a nonzero constant (a polynomial of degree 0).
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