English Explanatory Dictionary

cake number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. For some number n, the maximum number of regions into which a cube can be partitioned by exactly n planes.

Word forms

cake number cake numbers

Etymology

By analogy with slices being made by a knife through a cube-shaped cake.

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