sphenic

Related to sphenic: splenic artery

sphe·nic

 (sfē′nĭk)
adj.
Shaped like a wedge.
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sphenic

(ˈsfiːnɪk)
adj
having the shape of a wedge
[from Greek sphēn a wedge]
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Had someone asked him about 318, he probably would have said that it, too, had some interesting mathematical properties: As a sphenic number, it equals the product of three distinct primes (2 X 3 X 53); it also equals the sum of all the 12 prime numbers between 7 and [7.sup.2].
Three hundred eighteen
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