Math. [irreg. f. L. totiēs, totiens, f. tot so many, after QUOTIENT.] The number of numbers (including unity) less than and prime to a given number. So Totitive [irreg. f. L. tot + -itive in such words as primitive, unitive], any one of such numbers in relation to the given number.
1879. Sylvester, Math. Papers (1909), III. 337. Understanding by the ‘totitives’ of k the numbers less than k and prime to it, these totitives may be arranged in (among others) the natural groups hereunder written. Ibid. (1883), (1912), IV. 102. The sum of the totients of all the natural numbers up to j inclusive—a totient to x (which I denote by rx) meaning the number of numbers less than x and prime to it.
1891. Athenæum, 21 March, 383/1. ‘Some Theorems concerning Groups of Totitives of n,’ by Prof. L. Tanner.
