contraejemplo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkontɾaeˈxemplo/
  • Rhymes: -emplo
  • Syllabification: con‧tra‧e‧jem‧plo

Noun

contraejemplo m (plural contraejemplos)

  1. counterexample
    • 2015 July 13, “Un gran premio para una conjetura refutada”, in El País‎:
      Para sorpresa general ---dado que se pensaba que la conjetura debía ser cierta---, Francisco Santos Leal (Valladolid, 1968), catedrático de Geometría y Topología en la Universidad de Cantabria, dio en 2010 un contraejemplo a la Conjetura de Hirsch.
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