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