"quadratic residue" meaning in English

See quadratic residue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: quadratic residues [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} quadratic residue (plural quadratic residues)
  1. (number theory, modular arithmetic) For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n. Wikipedia link: quadratic residue Categories (topical): Number theory Translations (integer that is congruent to the square of some other number, to a given modulus): kvadratisk rest [common-gender] (Danish), residuo quadratico [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-quadratic_residue-en-noun-B5dFNw-Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, number-theory, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for quadratic residue meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “integer expressible as a square modulo n”",
      "word": "quadratic nonresidue"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadratic residues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadratic residue (plural quadratic residues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Number theory",
          "orig": "en:Number theory",
          "parents": [
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Derrick Henry Lehmer, Guide to Tables in the Theory of Numbers, National Research Council, page 52",
          "text": "There are many small tables of quadratic residues giving for the first few primes p the positive quadratic residues of p arranged in order of their size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1991, John Stillwell (translator), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Lectures on Number Theory, [1863, Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie], American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society, page 82,\nIf we now make the assumption that q is a quadratic residue of all odd primes z not greater than 2m + 1, then it follows from earlier theorems (§37) that the prime q, since it is ≡ 1 (mod 8) and hence a quadratic residue of each power of 2, is also a quadratic residue of each number which has no odd prime factors except the prime numbers z"
        },
        {
          "text": "1999, Dinakar Ramakrishnan, Robert J. Valenza, Tsinghua University Press [清华大学出版社有限公司], Fourier Analysis on Number Fields, page 213,\nOf special importance here is the quadratic reciprocity law, which for primes p and q gives a precise relationship between the status of p as a quadratic residue mod q and the status of q as a quadratic residue mod p."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n."
      ],
      "id": "en-quadratic_residue-en-noun-B5dFNw-Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "number theory",
          "number theory"
        ],
        [
          "congruent",
          "congruent"
        ],
        [
          "square",
          "square"
        ],
        [
          "modulo",
          "modulo"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "modular arithmetic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(number theory, modular arithmetic) For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "number-theory",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "integer that is congruent to the square of some other number, to a given modulus",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kvadratisk rest"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "integer that is congruent to the square of some other number, to a given modulus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "residuo quadratico"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "quadratic residue"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadratic residue"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “integer expressible as a square modulo n”",
      "word": "quadratic nonresidue"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadratic residues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadratic residue (plural quadratic residues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Number theory"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Derrick Henry Lehmer, Guide to Tables in the Theory of Numbers, National Research Council, page 52",
          "text": "There are many small tables of quadratic residues giving for the first few primes p the positive quadratic residues of p arranged in order of their size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1991, John Stillwell (translator), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Lectures on Number Theory, [1863, Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie], American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society, page 82,\nIf we now make the assumption that q is a quadratic residue of all odd primes z not greater than 2m + 1, then it follows from earlier theorems (§37) that the prime q, since it is ≡ 1 (mod 8) and hence a quadratic residue of each power of 2, is also a quadratic residue of each number which has no odd prime factors except the prime numbers z"
        },
        {
          "text": "1999, Dinakar Ramakrishnan, Robert J. Valenza, Tsinghua University Press [清华大学出版社有限公司], Fourier Analysis on Number Fields, page 213,\nOf special importance here is the quadratic reciprocity law, which for primes p and q gives a precise relationship between the status of p as a quadratic residue mod q and the status of q as a quadratic residue mod p."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "number theory",
          "number theory"
        ],
        [
          "congruent",
          "congruent"
        ],
        [
          "square",
          "square"
        ],
        [
          "modulo",
          "modulo"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "modular arithmetic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(number theory, modular arithmetic) For given positive integer n, any integer that is congruent to some square m² modulo n."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "number-theory",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "quadratic residue"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "integer that is congruent to the square of some other number, to a given modulus",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kvadratisk rest"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "integer that is congruent to the square of some other number, to a given modulus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "residuo quadratico"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadratic residue"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.