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  2. Decade (log scale) - Wikipedia

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    When a real number like .007 is denoted alternatively by 7.0 × 10 —3 then it is said that the number is represented in scientific notation.More generally, to write a number in the form a × 10 b, where 1 <= a < 10 and b is an integer, is to express it in scientific notation, and a is called the significand or the mantissa, and b is its exponent. [3]

  3. 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. 36: Hexatrigesimal [57] [58]

  4. Duodecimal - Wikipedia

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    The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base.In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.

  5. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    To change ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ to a decimal expression, divide 1... by 3 (" 3 into 1... "), and stop when the desired precision is obtained, e.g., at four places after the decimal separator (ten-thousandths) as 0.3333. The fraction1 / 4 ⁠ is expressed exactly with only two digits after the decimal separator, while the fraction1 / 3 ...

  6. Mathematical coincidence - Wikipedia

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    This is a pure coincidence, as the metre was originally defined as 1 / 10 000 000 of the distance between the Earth's pole and equator along the surface at sea level, and the Earth's circumference just happens to be about 2/15 of a light-second. [39] It is also roughly equal to one foot per nanosecond (the actual number is 0.9836 ft/ns).

  7. Finger binary - Wikipedia

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    Numbers between 0 and 102.3, 10.23, 1.023, etc. can be represented this way, in increments of 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, etc. Vulgar fractions can be represented by using one hand to represent the numerator and one hand to represent the denominator ; a spectrum of rational numbers can be represented this way, ranging from 1/31 to 31/1 (as well as 0).

  8. 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 ...

  9. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    So this particular repeating decimal corresponds to the fraction1 / 10 n − 1 ⁠, where the denominator is the number written as n 9s. Knowing just that, a general repeating decimal can be expressed as a fraction without having to solve an equation. For example, one could reason: