Chebyshev's bias

English

Etymology

From Pafnuty Chebyshev, the discoverer.

Proper noun

Chebyshev's bias

  1. The phenomenon that most of the time, there are more prime numbers of the form 4k + 3 than of the form 4k + 1 up to n.
  2. The phenomenon that if is a quadratic residue modulo and is a quadratic nonresidue modulo , then occurs more often than not
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