enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Operand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operand

    In the above example, '+' is the symbol for the operation called addition. The operand '3' is one of the inputs (quantities) followed by the addition operator, and the operand '6' is the other input necessary for the operation. The result of the operation is 9. (The number '9' is also called the sum of the augend 3 and the addend 6.)

  3. Common operator notation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_operator_notation

    Operands are objects upon which the operators operate. These include literal numbers and other constants as well as identifiers (names) which may represent anything from simple scalar variables to complex aggregated structures and objects, depending on the complexity and capability of the language at hand as well as usage context.

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographical...

    In this table, The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias.

  5. Notation system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_system

    Phonographic writing systems, by definition, use symbols to represent components of auditory language, i.e. speech, which in turn refers to things or ideas. The two main kinds of phonographic notational system are the alphabet and the syllabary .

  6. Operation (mathematics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_(mathematics)

    An operation can take zero or more input values (also called "operands" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value. The number of operands is the arity of the operation. The most commonly studied operations are binary operations (i.e., operations of arity 2), such as addition and multiplication , and unary operations (i.e., operations of ...

  7. Essay - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay

    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been

  8. Colon (punctuation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)

    The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...

  9. Glossary of logic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_logic

    A definition that refers to a set that includes the entity being defined, often leading to paradoxes in naive set theories. inclusive disjunction A logical operation that returns true if at least one of its operands is true; corresponds to the logical OR. inclusive first-order logic