"Frobenius number" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Frobenius numbers [plural]
Etymology: After Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Frobenius number (plural Frobenius numbers)
  1. For a given set of coprime positive integers, the greatest integer that cannot be expressed as a linear combination (with nonnegative integer coefficients) of its elements.

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