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Of the Form


The phrase "of the form" indicates that an expression has a given type. For example, all primes p>3 are "of the form" 6n+/-1. The term "of shape" is sometimes also used.


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Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, p. 13, 1986.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Of the Form." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/OftheForm.html

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