exterior Jordan content

exterior Jordan content

[ek¦stir·ē·ər ¦jȯrd·ən ′kän‚tent]

(mathematics)

Also known as exterior content.

For a set of points on a line, the largest number C such that the sum of the lengths of a finite number of closed intervals that includes every point in the set is always equal to or greater than C.

The exterior Jordan content of a set of points, X, in n-dimensional Euclidean space (where n is a positive integer) is the greatest lower bound on the hypervolume of the union of a finite set of hypercubes that contains X.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.