enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Positional notation - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_notation

   The use of a radix point (decimal point in base ten), extends to include fractions and allows representing any real number with arbitrary accuracy. With positional notation, arithmetical computations are much simpler than with any older numeral system; this led to the rapid spread of the notation when it was introduced in western Europe.

3. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system

   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".

4. Non-integer base of numeration - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer_base_of_numeration

   This means that every integer can be expressed in base √ 2 without the need of a decimal point. The base can also be used to show the relationship between the side of a square to its diagonal as a square with a side length of 1 √ 2 will have a diagonal of 10 √ 2 and a square with a side length of 10 √ 2 will have a diagonal of 100 √ 2 .

5. Numeral system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system

   To generate the rest of the numerals, the position of the symbol in the figure is used. The symbol in the last position has its own value, and as it moves to the left its value is multiplied by b. For example, in the decimal system (base 10), the numeral 4327 means (4×10 3) + (3×10 2) + (2×10 1) + (7×10 0), noting that 10 0 = 1.

6. Number - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number

   Each digit to the right of the decimal point has a place value one-tenth of the place value of the digit to its left. For example, 123.456 represents ⁠ 123456 / 1000 ⁠ , or, in words, one hundred, two tens, three ones, four tenths, five hundredths, and six thousandths.

7. Numerical digit - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit

   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 ...

8. Decimal - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal

   Decimal may also refer specifically to the digits after the decimal separator, such as in "3.14 is the approximation of π to two decimals". Zero-digits after a decimal separator serve the purpose of signifying the precision of a value. The numbers that may be represented in the decimal system are the decimal fractions.

9. Significant figures - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures

   For an integer in rounding, replace the digits after the n digit with zeros. For example, if 1254 is rounded to 2 significant figures, then 5 and 4 are replaced to 0 so that it will be 1300. For a number with the decimal point in rounding, remove the digits after the n digit. For example, if 14.895 is rounded to 3 significant figures, then the ...