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relative sunspot number
A number devised by Rudolf Wolf of Zurich in 1849 to describe sunspot activity. Sometimes called the Wolf number, it is defined as:
where R is the sunspot number, k is a constant depending on the instrument used, g is the number of disturbed regions, and f is the total number of sunspots.
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