positive integer

collocation in English

meaningsofpositiveandinteger

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positive
adjective
uk
/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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integer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.tɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈɪn.tə.dʒɚ/
a whole number and not ...
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(Definition ofpositiveandintegerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the case of (1.8) with > 0 we choose = m0 t with m0 being apositiveinteger.
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Let be a sufficiently largepositiveintegerand let s be a positive number.
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Let m be apositiveintegerwhich we make very large later.
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Processed cells that have the same periodical characteristics will be assigned the samepositiveintegergroup numbers.
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As for number of teeth, it has to be apositiveinteger.
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The standard unit vectors do this for any vector in the subsemigroup of strictlypositiveintegervectors.
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In the above results, we assumed that the quantity r is a fixedpositiveinteger.
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When the size is statically known, si is apositiveintegerconstant.
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So it suffices to show that these classes are both non-zero and are not divisible by apositiveinteger.
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A very interesting problem is estimating f(k) - the minimumpositiveintegerf such that every f-connected graph is k-linked.
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In fact, throughout this paper, we use 'polynomial' to mean a polynomial withpositiveintegercoefficients.
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Note that 0 is apositiveintegerin this case.
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