p-adic ordinal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A function of rational numbers, with prime number p as parameter, which is defined for some non-zero integer x as the largest integer r such that pʳ divides x; is defined for some non-zero rational number a/b as the p-adic ordinal of a minus the p-adic ordinal of b; and is defined for 0 as infinity.
Example Sentences
- "Notice the resemblance between the p-adic ordinal and the base-p logarithm."