The difference between N-adic and P-adic number


N-adic is also adjective with the meaning: having a valency of n.

P-adic number is also noun with the meaning: an element of a completion of the field of rational numbers with respect to a p-adic ultrametric.

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  1. N-adic as an adjective (chemistry):

    having a valency of n

  2. N-adic as an adjective (math, many contexts):

    Of the order "n".

  1. P-adic number as a noun (number theory):

    An element of a completion of the field of rational numbers with respect to a p-adic ultrametric.

    Examples:

    "The expansion (21)2121<sub>''p''</sub> is equal to the rational <b>''p''-adic number</b> <math>\textstyle{2 p + 1 \over p^2 - 1}.</math>"

    "In the set of [[p-adic number 3-adic numbers]], the closed ball of radius 1/3 "centered" at 1, call it ''B'', is the set <math>\textstyle\{x \exists n \in \mathbb{Z} . \, x = 3 n + 1 \}.</math> This closed ball partitions into exactly three smaller closed balls of radius 1/9: <math>\{x \exists n \in \mathbb{Z} . \, x = 1 + 9 n \},</math> <math>\{x \exists n \in \mathbb{Z} . \, x = 4 + 9 n \},</math> and <math>\{x \exists n \in \mathbb{Z} . \, x = 7 + 9 n \}.</math> Then each of those balls partitions into exactly 3 smaller closed balls of radius 1/27, and the sub-partitioning can be continued indefinitely, in a fractal manner.<br>Likewise, going upwards in the hierarchy, ''B'' is part of the closed ball of radius 1 centered at 1, namely, the set of integers. Two other closed balls of radius 1 are "centered" at 1/3 and 2/3, and all three closed balls of radius 1 form a closed ball of radius 3, <math>\{x \exists n \in \mathbb{Z} . \, x = 1 + {n\over 3} \},</math> which is one out of three closed balls forming a closed ball of radius 9, and so on."

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