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2. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Thus, in the expression 1 + 2 × 3, the multiplication is performed before addition, and the expression has the value 1 + (2 × 3) = 7, and not (1 + 2) × 3 = 9. When exponents were introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries, they were given precedence over both addition and multiplication and placed as a superscript to the right of ...

3. 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 .

4. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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   Ordinal number – Generalization of "n-th" to infinite cases (the related, but more formal and abstract, usage in mathematics) Ordinal data, in statistics; Ordinal date – Date written as number of days since first day of year; Regnal ordinal – Ordinal numbers used to distinguish among persons with the same name who held the same office

5. Look-and-say sequence - Wikipedia

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   The look-and-say sequence was analyzed by John Conway [1] after he was introduced to it by one of his students at a party. [2] [3] The idea of the look-and-say sequence is similar to that of run-length encoding. If started with any digit d from 0 to 9 then d will remain indefinitely as the last digit of the sequence.

6. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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   When placed after a number, a plus sign can indicate an open range of numbers. For example, "18+" is commonly used as shorthand for "ages 18 and up" although "eighteen plus", for example, is now common usage. In US grading systems, the plus sign indicates a grade one level higher and the minus sign a grade lower.

7. Ordinal indicator - Wikipedia

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   Since none of these words are shortened before feminine nouns, their correct forms for those cases are primera and tercera. These can be represented as 1.ª and 3.ª. As with other abbreviations in Spanish, the ordinal numbers have a period ".", which is placed before the indicator. Portuguese follows the same method. [6]