p-adic ordinal (English, noun)
expansion: p-adic ordinal (plural p-adic ordinals)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: p-adic ordinals
tags: plural