Timeline for Why are smooth numbers called "smooth"?
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| May 7, 2014 at 1:06 | comment | added | Conder | Supposedly, the opposite of "smooth" was "chunky", following a peanut butter analogy. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 1:04 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | An aside: One quote among the comments to the blog entry to which you linked is interesting: "I think of it like gravy: smooth gravy has no lumps or chunks in it, and the analogue of lumps for integers is big prime factors." | |
| May 7, 2014 at 0:49 | history | answered | Terry Tao | CC BY-SA 3.0 |