Page boy (wedding attendant) arrhae. The coins are presented to the celebrant for a blessing. Page boy (wedding attendant) A page boy is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion, a social dance. This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions. Traditionally, page boys carry the bride's train, especially if the bride is wearing a dress with a long train.
Rank of a partition presented in the context of a study of certain congruence properties of the partition function discovered by the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. A different concept, sharing the same name, is used in combinatorics, where the rank is taken to be the size of the Durfee square of the partition. By a "partition" of a positive integer "n" we mean a finite multiset λ = { λ, λ, . . . , λ } of positive integers satisfying the following two conditions: If "λ", . . . , "λ", "λ" are distinct, that is, if then the partition "λ" is