supercongruence

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ congruence

Noun[edit]

supercongruence (plural supercongruences)

  1. (mathematics) A congruence modulo some power of a prime
    • 2015, Rupam Barman, Neelam Saikia, “Supercongruences for truncated hypergeometric series and p-adic gamma function”, in arXiv[1]:
      Mortenson \cite{mortenson2} using the theory of Gaussian hypergeometric series follows from one of our more general supercongruence..