Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cartesian product

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English

Syllables
carte-sian prod-uct
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set (x,y);|;x∈X;and;y∈Y.

noun

All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.

noun

An (m+n)-dimensional space, formally composed of all possible ordered pairs of points from X and Y, but thought of as an independent (m+n)-dimensional space (in the sense that if, e.g. X and Y are vector spaces, the elements of X×Y are thought of as (m+n)-tuples instead of ordered pairs) and written X×Y.

noun

Any of several generalizations of the set-theoretic sense, especially one which shares the geometrical intuition outlined above, i.e. one such that the product can be thought of as an object in its own right and not just as a set of pairs.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Cartesian product.

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What does cartesian product mean?
The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set (x,y);|;x∈X;and;y∈Y.
Where does cartesian product come from?
From Cartesian + product, after French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist René Descartes (1596–1650), whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept.

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