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2. Kaktovik numerals - Wikipedia

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   30,561 10 3,G81 20 ÷ ÷ ÷ 61 10 31 20 = = = 501 10 151 20 30,561 10 ÷ 61 10 = 501 10 3,G81 20 ÷ 31 20 = 151 20 ÷ = (black) The divisor goes into the first two digits of the dividend one time, for a one in the quotient. (red) fits into the next two digits once (if rotated), so the next digit in the quotient is a rotated one (that is, a five). (blue) The last two digits are matched once for ...

3. English numerals - Wikipedia

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   So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.

4. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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   The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent-, from the original Latin, and those in -cent-, derived from centi-, etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .

5. Number - Wikipedia

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   The natural numbers, starting with 1. The most familiar numbers are the natural numbers (sometimes called whole numbers or counting numbers): 1, 2, 3, and so on. Traditionally, the sequence of natural numbers started with 1 (0 was not even considered a number for the Ancient Greeks.)

6. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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   Such a number is algebraic and can be expressed as the sum of a rational number and the square root of a rational number. Constructible number: A number representing a length that can be constructed using a compass and straightedge. Constructible numbers form a subfield of the field of algebraic numbers, and include the quadratic surds.

7. Natural number - Wikipedia

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   Nicolas Chuquet used the term progression naturelle (natural progression) in 1484. [20] The earliest known use of "natural number" as a complete English phrase is in 1763. [21] [22] The 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica defines natural numbers in the logarithm article. [22] Starting at 0 or 1 has long been a matter of definition.