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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]
Radix, radix point, mixed radix, base (mathematics); Unary numeral system (base 1) . Tally marks – Numeral form used for counting; Binary numeral system (base 2); Negative base numeral system (base −2)
More general is using a mixed radix notation (here written little-endian) like for + +, etc. This is used in Punycode , one aspect of which is the representation of a sequence of non-negative integers of arbitrary size in the form of a sequence without delimiters, of "digits" from a collection of 36: a–z and 0–9, representing 0–25 and 26 ...
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 ...
Sexagesimal numerals were a mixed radix system that retained the alternating bases of 10 and 6 that characterized tokens, numerical impressions, and proto-cuneiform numerical signs. Sexagesimal numerals were used in commerce, as well as for astronomical and other calculations.
The base e is the most economical choice of radix β > 1, [4] where the radix economy is measured as the product of the radix and the length of the string of symbols needed to express a given range of values. A binary number uses only two different digits, but it needs a lot of digits for representing a number; base 10 writes shorter numbers ...
In any mixed-radix positional system that has positions with radix 1, the map from the set of all its tuples obtained by deleting said radix-1 positions is bijective. They have no numeric significance and should be generally excluded; the minimum meaningful radix is 2. Taabagg 00:54, 18 August 2020 (UTC)