👉 The term "pademelon" is a concept in mathematics that refers to a specific type of matrix. A pademelon is a special kind of Toeplitz matrix, which is a type of square matrix with diagonal entries that are all zero except for a single value at the center (the Padé approximation). The Padé approximation is used in computational fluid dynamics and other fields where it can be useful to approximate the behavior of solutions to differential equations.