positive integer

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We assume that in our drawing, m is the smallest positive integer satisfying this equation.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2021

From that point, Douglas Adams’s number was the last positive integer lower than 100 whose representation as a sum of three integer cubes was unknown.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2020

The index does not have to start with 1 either—it can start and end with any positive integer.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

This same logic can be used for any positive integer exponent n to show that a 1n = na .

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

The general form of these is axn + bxn-1 + ... + kx + l = 0, where n is a positive integer, and a, b, ... k, l are given numbers.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various