"Gaussian moat" meaning in English

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          "text": "If we can keep finding 'fatter and fatter' Gaussian moats surrounding the origin, then the prime-hiker will have to keep taking longer and longer steps.",
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          "text": "The approach we follow is composed by three main components, each one defined by its own algorithm. The first one generates the necessary Gaussian primes, the second one calculates the Gaussian Moat, and the third one calculates the shortest paths.",
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          "text": "The Gaussian moat problem was posed originally by Basil Gordon in 1962 at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Stockholm, […]",
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        "The maximum difference between consecutive numbers in a sequence of distinct Gaussian prime numbers."
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        "(number theory) The maximum difference between consecutive numbers in a sequence of distinct Gaussian prime numbers."
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