Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

euler characteristic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: eu-ler char-ac-ter-is-tic
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sum of even-dimensional Betti numbers minus the sum of odd-dimensional ones.

Example Sentences

"A polygon's or polyhedron's Euler characteristic is just the number of corners minus the number of edges plus the number of faces."

Inflected Forms

Euler characteristics (plural)

Questions

What does euler characteristic mean?: The sum of even-dimensional Betti numbers minus the sum of odd-dimensional ones.

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