Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

independence number

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English

Syllables
in-de-pen-dence num-ber
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of vertices in a maximum independent set of a given graph, often denoted as α=α(G).

noun

The smallest cardinality of a maximal independent family of subsets of the natural numbers, usually denoted by lowercase Fraktur letter i.

Inflected Forms

independence numbers (plural)

Questions

What does independence number mean?
The number of vertices in a maximum independent set of a given graph, often denoted as α=α(G).

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