English Explanatory Dictionary

Achilles number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An integer that is a powerful number but not a perfect power.

Word forms

Achilles number Achilles numbers

Etymology

Coined by Henry Bottomley after Achilles, a hero of the Trojan War.

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