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  2. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    Decimal fractions were first developed and used by the Chinese in the form of rod calculus in the 1st century BC, and then spread to the rest world. [6] [7] J. Lennart Berggren notes that positional decimal fractions were first used in the Arab by mathematician Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi as early as the 10th century. [8]

  3. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    A fixed-point representation of a fractional number is essentially an integer that is to be implicitly multiplied by a fixed scaling factor. For example, the value 1.23 can be stored in a variable as the integer value 1230 with implicit scaling factor of 1/1000 (meaning that the last 3 decimal digits are implicitly assumed to be a decimal fraction), and the value 1 230 000 can be represented ...

  4. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    The subdivisions of the bushel were maintained. As with US dry measures, the imperial system divides the bushel into 4 pecks, 8 gallons, 32 quarts or 64 pints. Thus, all of these imperial measures are about 3% larger than are their US dry-measure counterparts. Fluid measure is not as straightforward.

  5. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a measurement of time such as 3:23:17 (3 hours, 23 minutes, and 17 seconds) can be interpreted as a whole sexagesimal number (no sexagesimal point), meaning 3 × 60 2 + 23 × 60 1 + 17 × 60 0 seconds. However, each of the three sexagesimal digits in this number (3, 23, and 17) is written using the decimal system.

  6. Number - Wikipedia

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    A real number can be expressed by a finite number of decimal digits only if it is rational and its fractional part has a denominator whose prime factors are 2 or 5 or both, because these are the prime factors of 10, the base of the decimal system. Thus, for example, one half is 0.5, one fifth is 0.2, one-tenth is 0.1, and one fiftieth is 0.02.

  7. Rational number - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, "rational" is often used as a noun abbreviating "rational number". The adjective rational sometimes means that the coefficients are rational numbers. For example, a rational point is a point with rational coordinates (i.e., a point whose coordinates are rational numbers); a rational matrix is a matrix of rational numbers; a rational polynomial may be a polynomial with rational ...

  8. Arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Decimal fractions like 0.3 and 25.12 are a special type of rational numbers since their denominator is a power of 10. For instance, 0.3 is equal to , and 25.12 is equal to . [20] Every rational number corresponds to a finite or a repeating decimal. [21] [c]

  9. List of number theory topics - Wikipedia

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    Irrationality measure; Simple continued fraction. Mathematical constant (sorted by continued fraction representation) Khinchin's constant; Lévy's constant; Lochs' theorem; Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing operator; Minkowski's question mark function; Generalized continued fraction; Kronecker's theorem; Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem; Prouhet–Thue ...