English Explanatory Dictionary

Chebyshev's bias

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The phenomenon that most of the time, there are more prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 than of the form 4k + 1 up to n.
  2. The phenomenon that if a is a quadratic residue modulo q and b is a quadratic nonresidue modulo q, then π(x;b,q)>π(x;a,q) occurs more often than not

Word forms

Chebyshev's bias

Etymology

From Pafnuty Chebyshev, the discoverer.

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