English Explanatory Dictionary

tetrahedral number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A number which results from the summation of consecutive triangular numbers, starting from 1. If the triangular numbers in such a summation are depicted as horizontal triangular arrays of units then these arrays can be stacked vertically to yield a tetrahedral array.

Word forms

tetrahedral number tetrahedral numbers
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