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Abc conjecture
Meaning
Noun
●
In Number theory:
Given
coprime
positive
integers
a,
b
and
c
,
such that
a +
b
=
c
, and
d
the
radical
of
abc
(the product of its
d
istinct
prime factors
), the
conjecture
that
d
is usually not much
smaller
than
c
(
in other words
, that if a and
b
are
divisible
b
y large
powers
of
primes
, then
c
usually is not).
●
Any of certain
generalisations
of the conjecture.
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