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young diagram

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables
young -di-a-gram
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A finite collection of boxes, or cells, arranged in left-justified rows, with the row lengths in non-increasing order. Listing the number of boxes in each row gives a partition λ of a non-negative integer n, the total number of boxes of the diagram.

Etymology

Introduced by Alfred Young, a Cambridge mathematician.

Inflected Forms

Young diagrams (plural)

Phrases

Young tableau Ferrers diagram

Frequently Paired Words

Young tableau Ferrers diagram

Questions

What does young diagram mean?
A finite collection of boxes, or cells, arranged in left-justified rows, with the row lengths in non-increasing order. Listing the number of boxes in each row gives a partition λ of a non-negative integer n, the total number of boxes of the diagram.
Where does young diagram come from?
Introduced by Alfred Young, a Cambridge mathematician.

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