Where does “totient” come from?

totient (English) comes from Latin totiens, from Latin tot, from Proto-Indo-European toti, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.

totient (English): The number of positive integers not greater than...

Definitions

  1. The number of positive integers not greater than...

Ancestry of “totient”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintotiensso often, so many times; as often, as many times
2Latintotso many
3Proto-Indo-Europeantotiso many
4Proto-Indo-Europeansóthis; that

Words derived from “totient”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European só →Every word from Proto-Indo-European toti →Every word from Latin tot →
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