English Explanatory Dictionary

Ulam spiral

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking the primes.

Word forms

Ulam spiral Ulam spirals

Etymology

Devised by mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1963.

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