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