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p-adic ordinals

p-adic ordinals is the plural of p-adic ordinal.

Meaning of p-adic ordinal

Noun

p-adic ordinal (plural p-adic ordinals)

  1. A function of rational numbers, with prime number p as parameter, which is defined for some non-zero integer x as the largest integer r such that pʳ divides x; is defined for some non-zero rational number a/b as the p-adic ordinal of a minus the p-adic ordinal of b; and is defined for 0 as infinity.
    • Notice the resemblance between the p-adic ordinal and the base-p logarithm.

Questions about p-adic ordinals

What is p-adic ordinals the plural of?
P-adic ordinals is the plural of p-adic ordinal.

Words near p-adic ordinals in the dictionary

  1. p-adic number
  2. p-adic numbers
  3. p-adic order
  4. p-adic orders
  5. p-adic ordinal
  6. p-adic ordinals
  7. p-adic ultrametric
  8. p-ANCA
  9. P-bar
  10. P-bars
  11. p-block

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