Degree of the polynomial counting the number of semistandard Young tableaux when stretching the shape. Given a partition $\lambda$ with $r$ parts, the number of semi-standard Young-tableaux of shape $k\lambda$ and boxes with values in $[r]$ grows as a polynomial in $k$. This follows by setting $q=1$ in (7.105) on page 375 of [1], which yields the polynomial $$p(k) = \prod_{i < j}\frac{k(\lambda_j-\lambda_i)+j-i}{j-i}.$$ The statistic of the degree of this polynomial. For example, the partition $(3, 2, 1, 1, 1)$ gives $$p(k) = \frac{-1}{36} (k - 3) (2k - 3) (k - 2)^2 (k - 1)^3$$ which has degree 7 in $k$. Thus, $[3, 2, 1, 1, 1] \mapsto 7$. This is the same as the number of unordered pairs of different parts, which follows from: $$\deg p(k)=\sum_{i < j}\begin{cases}1& \lambda_j \neq \lambda_i\\0&\lambda_i=\lambda_j\end{cases}=\sum_{\stackrel{i < j}{\lambda_j \neq \lambda_i}} 1$$

The number of edges in the reduced word graph of a signed permutation. The reduced word graph of a signed permutation $\pi$ has the reduced words of $\pi$ as vertices and an edge between two reduced words if they differ by exactly one braid move.

The difference of the first and last value in the first row of the Gelfand-Tsetlin pattern.