IRREDUCIBLE

irreducible

Noun

  1. Such a polynomial

Adjective

  1. Not able to be reduced or lessened.
  2. Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
  3. Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x^2 + 1).
  4. Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
  5. Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
  6. impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation


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