integer

What mattered was mostly the initial integer, or what was “to the left of the decimal point,” rather than anything more exact.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Quantum systems’ disruptive potential lies in their ability to execute Shor’s algorithm, or find the prime factors of an integer in polynomial time.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Accordingly, in the White House video, a +100 integer flashes on-screen when a mortar shell connects with its target, as if the president himself were landing trick shots on his Twitch stream.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

This means that systematic variations of the compound's chemical formula, which can be represented using integer variables, result in systematic changes in its properties.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

Saying that the integer 4 is not odd is logically the same as saying that it is even.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Quantum computers can be used to solve problems that even supercomputers can only solve after a very long time or not at all, such as breaking down large integers into prime factors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

These latest projects are primarily driven by a specific continued fraction whose nested integers form the sequence 1, 2, 3,…, Elsner says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023

And the box “What Are Imaginary Numbers?” should have said that rational numbers include the integers, not that “rational numbers are the integers.”

From Scientific American ● May 28, 2023

“I’m so used to this kudzu sprawl of figurative language,” she said, “and simple can feel like ‘see spot run,’ but there are simple words like prime integers that carry so much meaning when sung.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

I shared my love of x and y variables, and of integers, decimal points, and fractions.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson