totient

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Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

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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