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2. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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   Using all numbers and all letters except I and O; the smallest base where ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ terminates and all of ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ to ⁠ 1 / 18 ⁠ have periods of 4 or shorter. 35 Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O.

3. Binary number - Wikipedia

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   Horus-Eye fractions are a binary numbering system for fractional quantities of grain, liquids, or other measures, in which a fraction of a hekat is expressed as a sum of the binary fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and 1/64.

4. Quaternary numeral system - Wikipedia

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   Quaternary / kwəˈtɜːrnəri / is a numeral system with four as its base. It uses the digits 0, 1, 2, and 3 to represent any real number. Conversion from binary is straightforward. Four is the largest number within the subitizing range and one of two numbers that is both a square and a highly composite number (the other being thirty-six ...

5. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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   However, most decimal fractions like 0.1 or 0.123 are infinite repeating fractions in base 2. and hence cannot be represented that way. Similarly, any decimal fraction a /10 m , such as 1/100 or 37/1000, can be exactly represented in fixed point with a power-of-ten scaling factor 1/10 n with any n ≥ m .

6. Time signature - Wikipedia

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   Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

7. Ternary numeral system - Wikipedia

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   A ternary / ˈtɜːrnəri / numeral system (also called base 3 or trinary) has three as its base. Analogous to a bit, a ternary digit is a trit (tri nary dig it). One trit is equivalent to log 2 3 (about 1.58496) bits of information. Although ternary most often refers to a system in which the three digits are all non–negative numbers ...

8. Number Forms - Wikipedia

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   Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals. In addition to the characters in the Number Forms block, three fractions (¼, ½, and ¾) were inherited from ISO-8859-1 ...

9. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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   With so many factors, many fractions involving sexagesimal numbers are simplified. For example, one hour can be divided evenly into sections of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 12 minutes, 10 minutes, 6 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. 60 is the smallest number that is divisible by every number from 1 to 6 ...