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2. Quinary - Wikipedia

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   Quinary (base 5 or pental [1] [2] [3]) is a numeral system with five as the base. A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five digits on either hand . In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4 , are used to represent any real number .

3. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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   A digit's value is the digit multiplied by the value of its place. Place values are the number of the base raised to the nth power, where n is the number of other digits between a given digit and the radix point.

4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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   The smallest base greater than binary such that no three-digit narcissistic number exists. 80: Octogesimal: Used as a sub-base in Supyire. 85: Ascii85 encoding. This is the minimum number of characters needed to encode a 32 bit number into 5 printable characters in a process similar to MIME-64 encoding, since 85 5 is only slightly bigger than 2 ...

5. Numerical digit - Wikipedia

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   The decimal numeral system uses a decimal separator, commonly a period in English, or a comma in other European languages, [2] to denote the "ones place" or "units place", [3] [4] [5] which has a place value one. Each successive place to the left of this has a place value equal to the place value of the previous digit times the base. Similarly ...

6. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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   The Hindu–Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system. In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more commonly a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for "these digits recur ad infinitum".

7. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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   Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc., with the suffix acting as an ordinal indicator. Written dates often omit the suffix, although it is nevertheless pronounced. For example: 5 November 1605 (pronounced "the fifth of November ...