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  2. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    A digit's value is the digit multiplied by the value of its place. Place values are the number of the base raised to the n th power, where n is the number of other digits between a given digit and the radix point .

  3. Decimal - Wikipedia

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    Place value of number in decimal system. The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary / ˈ d iː n ər i / [1] or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers (decimal fractions) of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

  4. Quinary - Wikipedia

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    Quinary (base 5 or pental [1] [2] [3]) is a numeral system with five as the base.A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five digits on either hand.. In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4, are used to represent any real number.

  5. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    The leftmost or largest digit position among the last significant figures of these terms is the ones place, so the calculated result should also have its last significant figure in the ones place. The rule to calculate significant figures for multiplication and division are not the same as the rule for addition and subtraction.

  6. Bit numbering - Wikipedia

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    In both cases, the LSb and MSb correlate directly to the least significant digit and most significant digit of a decimal integer. Bit indexing correlates to the positional notation of the value in base 2. For this reason, bit index is not affected by how the value is stored on the device, such as the value's byte order. Rather, it is a property ...

  7. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    Any such symbol can be called a decimal mark, decimal marker, or decimal sign. Symbol-specific names are also used; decimal point and decimal comma refer to a dot (either baseline or middle ) and comma respectively, when it is used as a decimal separator; these are the usual terms used in English, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with the aforementioned ...

  8. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    The value of π as used by the Greek mathematician and scientist Ptolemy was 3;8,30 = 3 + ⁠ 8 / 60 ⁠ + ⁠ 30 / 60 2 ⁠ = ⁠ 377 / 120 ⁠ ≈ 3.141 666.... [28] Jamshīd al-Kāshī , a 15th-century Persian mathematician, calculated 2 π as a sexagesimal expression to its correct value when rounded to nine subdigits (thus to ⁠ 1 / 60 9 ...

  9. Decimal floating point - Wikipedia

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    In the case of the mechanical calculators, the exponent is often treated as side information that is accounted for separately. The IBM 650 computer supported an 8-digit decimal floating-point format in 1953. [1] The otherwise binary Wang VS machine supported a 64-bit decimal floating-point format in 1977. [2]