The difference between Arity and Distributive number

When used as nouns, arity means the number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. for a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding cartesian product, whereas distributive number means a word that answers "how many times each?" or "how many at a time?".


check bellow for the other definitions of Arity and Distributive number

  1. Arity as a noun (logic, mathematics, computer science):

    The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.

  2. Arity as a noun (mathematics, computer science):

    The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.

  3. Arity as a noun (Lojban, _, grammar):

    the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).

  1. Distributive number as a noun (grammar):

    A word that answers "how many times each?" or "how many at a time?"

    Examples:

    "Singly" is a distributive number, while "single" is a multiplier."