"sieve theory" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} sieve theory (uncountable)
  1. (number theory) A set of general techniques for computing or estimating the size of sifted sets of integers. Wikipedia link: sieve theory Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Number theory
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