Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

listing number

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: list-ing num-ber
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of four topological invariants associated with a topological space. The smallest Listing number counts the number of connected components of a space, and is thus equivalent to the zeroth Betti number.

Etymology

These numbers were introduced by the 19th-century mathematician Johann Benedict Listing, and later given this name by Charles Sanders Peirce.

Inflected Forms

Listing numbers (plural)

Questions

What does listing number mean?: Any of four topological invariants associated with a topological space. The smallest Listing number counts the number of connected components of a space, and is thus equivalent to the zeroth Betti number.
Where does listing number come from?: These numbers were introduced by the 19th-century mathematician Johann Benedict Listing, and later given this name by Charles Sanders Peirce.

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