totient

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

totient (plural totients)

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