totient

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Etymology

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From Latin totiēns (“so many times, so often”). Coined by English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester in 1879.

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Noun

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totient (plural totients)

  1. (mathematics) The number of positive integers not greater than a specified integer that are relatively prime to it.
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