"primorial" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: primorials [plural]
Etymology: Blend of prime + factorial. Coined by American engineer and mathematician Harvey Dubner. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|prime|factorial}} Blend of prime + factorial Head templates: {{en-noun}} primorial (plural primorials)
  1. (number theory) Any number belonging to the integer sequence whose nth element is the product of the first n primes. Categories (topical): Number theory Synonyms: primorial number
    Sense id: en-primorial-en-noun-2MzgC-zZ Topics: mathematics, number-theory, sciences
  2. (number theory) A unary operation, denoted by the postfix symbol # and defined on the nonnegative integers, which maps 0 to 1, 1 to 1, and each subsequent number to the product of all primes less than or equal to it; the value mapped to by said operation for a given input. Categories (topical): Number theory
    Sense id: en-primorial-en-noun-6X1rFs5i Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English blends: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Topics: mathematics, number-theory, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: primorial prime Translations (product of primes): Primorial [feminine] (German), Primfakultät [feminine, rare] (German), primoriale [masculine] (Italian), primoriyel (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'product of primes': 53 47

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