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The most familiar example of mixed-radix systems is in timekeeping and calendars. Western time radices include, both cardinally and ordinally, decimal years, decades, and centuries, septenary for days in a week, duodecimal months in a year, bases 28–31 for days within a month, as well as base 52 for weeks in a year.
General mixed radix systems were studied by Georg Cantor. [2] The term "factorial number system" is used by Knuth, [3] while the French equivalent "numération factorielle" was first used in 1888. [4] The term "factoradic", which is a portmanteau of factorial and mixed radix, appears to be of more recent date. [5]
"A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]
For example, "11" represents the number eleven in the decimal or base-10 numeral system (today, the most common system globally), the number three in the binary or base-2 numeral system (used in modern computers), and the number two in the unary numeral system (used in tallying scores). The number the numeral represents is called its value.
In a positional numeral system, the radix (pl.: radices) or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers.For example, for the decimal system (the most common system in use today) the radix is ten, because it uses the ten digits from 0 through 9.
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The generalization to radix representations, for >, and to =, is a digit-reversal permutation, in which the base-digits of the index of each element are reversed to obtain the permuted index. The same idea can also been generalized to mixed radix number systems. In such cases, the digit-reversal permutation should simultaneously reverses the ...
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