sufficient condition

1. In mathematics , a condition that must be satisfied for a statement to be true and without which the statement cannot be true. For example, although no one can run for president of the United States unless he or she is thirty-five or older, simply being thirty-five is not a sufficient condition to be president. ( Compare necessary condition .)

Example Sentences

It distinguishes for me the necessary condition with a sufficient condition, the union is necessary, but not sufficient.

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Perfect condition of the intelligence — is the one sufficient condition of virtue.

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The perfect condition of the Intelligence, is the sole and all-sufficient condition of virtue.

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But it is not a sufficient condition, as appears from the instance of the drops in the sea.

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The necessary and sufficient condition that the equation may be soluble by radicals is that its group should be a soluble group.

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