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relatively prime en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Synonym of coprime.
    • 24 is relatively prime to 35.
    • [Nicomachus] sets up three classes, and designates them as prime, composite and relatively prime; the latter are pairs of composite numbers that are prime to each other. 1926, Nicomachus of Gerasa, Frank Egleston Robbins, Louis Charles Karpinski, chapter VIII, in Martin Luther D'Ooge, transl., Introduction to Arithmetic, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 121:
    • 24 and 35 are relatively prime.

Synonyms

coprime