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Meaning of pentadecathlon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A sporting event consisting of fifteen different sports or contests.
  2. A particular oscillator that returns to its initial state after 15 generations.

Examples

“X! Produces a westward stream of lightweight spaceships representing prime numbers: a LWSS escapes past the pentadecathlon around generation 120n+100 if and only if n is prime.”
“The speed was very dependent on the number of live cells, but it ran the pentadecathlon at 92 gen/sec in the last version I measured.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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