Namespaces
Variants
Actions

Frobenius number

From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Revision as of 17:10, 7 February 2011 by 127.0.0.1 (talk) (Importing text file)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search

Let be a finite set of positive integers with greatest common divisor . The Frobenius number of is the largest natural number that cannot be written as a linear integer combination of the with non-negative coefficients.

See Frobenius problem.

How to Cite This Entry:
Frobenius number. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Frobenius_number&oldid=32824
This article was adapted from an original article by M. Hazewinkel (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article