Hmm. I didn't know the word before, but it occurs in this 1882 book on metrology http://books.google.com/books?id=WkS4AAAAIAAJ&dq=stathm&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=... which, I should think might predates the notion of Euclidean ring, and so ought to be in OED irrespective of it being a math term. But I didn't actually find it in a dictionary. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
We were taught in Algebra that a stathm is a function on a ring that can be used like absolute value on the integers to prove the Euclidean algorithm.
It's in some math books, but I can't find it in any dictionary, not even the OED. Does anyone know of any dictionary where this word appears?
--Dan
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