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  2. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    lb – binary logarithm (log 2). (Also written as ld.) lcm – lowest common multiple (a.k.a. least common multiple) of two numbers. LCHS – locally compact Hausdorff second countable. ld – binary logarithm (log 2). (Also written as lb.) lsc – lower semi-continuity. lerp – linear interpolation. [5] lg – common logarithm (log 10) or ...

  3. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    Any real number can be written in the form m × 10 ^ n in many ways: for example, 350 can be written as 3.5 × 10 2 or 35 × 10 1 or 350 × 10 0. In normalized scientific notation (called "standard form" in the United Kingdom), the exponent n is chosen so that the absolute value of m remains at least one but less than ten ( 1 ≤ | m | < 10 ).

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, class 5 is defined to include numbers between 10 10 10 10 6 and 10 10 10 10 10 6, which are numbers where X becomes humanly indistinguishable from X 2 [14] (taking iterated logarithms of such X yields indistinguishibility firstly between log(X) and 2log(X), secondly between log(log(X)) and 1+log(log(X)), and finally an extremely ...

  5. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    2. Equivalence class: given an equivalence relation, [] often denotes the equivalence class of the element x. 3. Integral part: if x is a real number, [] often denotes the integral part or truncation of x, that is, the integer obtained by removing all digits after the decimal mark.

  6. Standard form - Wikipedia

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    Standard form may refer to a way of writing very large or very small numbers by comparing the powers of ten. It is also known as Scientific notation. Numbers in standard form are written in this format: a×10 n Where a is a number 1 ≤ a < 10 and n is an integer. ln mathematics and science Canonical form

  7. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    A canonical form of an object is some standard or universal way to express the object. correspondence A correspondence from a set A {\displaystyle A} to a set B {\displaystyle B} is a subset of a Cartesian product A × B {\displaystyle A\times B} ; in other words, it is a binary relation but with the specification of the ambient sets A , B ...

  8. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    As a power of ten, the scaling factor is then indicated separately at the end of the number. For example, the orbital period of Jupiter's moon Io is 152,853.5047 seconds, a value that would be represented in standard-form scientific notation as 1.528535047 × 10 5 seconds. Floating-point representation is similar in concept to scientific notation.

  9. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Scientific notation (also known as standard form or exponential notation, for example 1 × 10 9, 1 × 10 10, 1 × 10 11, 1 × 10 12, etc.), or its engineering notation variant (for example 1 × 10 9, 10 × 10 9, 100 × 10 9, 1 × 10 12, etc.), or the computing variant E notation (for example 1e9, 1e10, 1e11, 1e12, etc.). This is the most common ...