giai thừa

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 階乘. The more common reading thừa is used instead of thặng. Compare Mandarin 階乘 / 阶乘 (jiēchéng), Cantonese 階乘 / 阶乘 (gaai1 sing4), Japanese 階乗 (kaijō), Korean 계승 (gyeseung).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zaːj˧˧ tʰɨə˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jaːj˧˧ tʰɨə˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jaːj˧˧ tʰɨə˨˩]

Noun

giai thừa

  1. (combinatorics) a factorial
    không giai thừa bằng một
    zero factorial is one