''p''-adic ultrametric

English

Noun

p-adic ultrametric (plural p-adic ultrametrics)

(mathematics) The ultrametric with prime number p as parameter defined as $d_{p}(x,y)=|x-y|_{p}$ ; i.e., such that the distance between two rational numbers is equal to the p-adic absolute value of the difference between those two numbers.^[1]

Hypernyms

ultrametric

Related terms

p-adic number

References

↑ 2008, Jacqui Ramagge, Unreal numbers: The story of p-adic numbers

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