pronic
adj/ˈpɹɒnɪk/
Etymology
Apparently from New Latin pronicus, a misspelling of Latin promicus, from Ancient Greek προμήκης (promḗkēs, “elongated, oblong”), but the spelling has been pronic from its earliest known occurrence in English (Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia, series 1, volume 15).
Definitions
Being the product of two consecutive integers.
- 1478 - Pierpaolo Muscharello, Algorismus p.163. Pronic root is as if you say, 9 times 9 makes 81. And now take the root of 9, which is 3, and this 3 is added above 81: it makes 84, so that the pronic root of 84 is said to be 3.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pronic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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