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The first of several addends, or "the one to which the others are added," is sometimes called the augend. Therefore, while a, b, and c are addends in a+b+c, a is the augend.

A pair of consecutive numbers.

An abbreviation for the cokernel.

An immediate consequence of a result already proved. Corollaries usually state more complicated theorems in a language simpler to use and apply.

A power of 10.

If A and B are equal by definition (i.e., A is defined as B), then this is written symbolically as A=B, A:=B, or sometimes A≜B.

The number of degrees of freedom in a problem, distribution, etc., is the number of parameters which may be independently varied.

This statement seems incomplete. Locate a reference and complete statement of the condition. For any group of k men out of N, there must be at least k jobs for which they are ...

A pair of overdots placed over a symbol, as in x^.., most commonly used to denote a second derivative with respect to time, i.e., x^..=d^2x/dt^2.

A mathematical statement of the equivalence of two quantities. The equality "A is equal to B" is written A=B.