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Definition of Positional notation
1. Noun. A numeration system in which a real number is represented by an ordered set of characters where the value of a character depends on its position.
Generic synonyms: Number Representation System, Number System, Numeration System, System Of Numeration
Specialized synonyms: Binary Number System, Binary Numeration System, Binary System, Pure Binary Numeration System, Octal Number System, Octal Numeration System, Decimal Number System, Decimal Numeration System, Decimal System, Duodecimal Number System, Duodecimal System, Hexadecimal Number System, Hexadecimal System, Sexadecimal Number System
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positional Notation
Literary usage of Positional notation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Foundation and Technic of Arithmetic by George Bruce Halsted (1912)
"A decimal is a number whose expression in our positional notation contains ...
It is the characteristic of our positional notation for number that shifting ..."
2. The Number-system of Algebra: Treated Theoretically and Historically by Henry Burchard Fine (1890)
"When 0 was invented and the positional notation replaced the old notation cannot
be exactly determined. It was * Dr. Isaac Taylor, in his book " The ..."
3. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"... arithmetical system, and this the Maya possessed; for they had developed a
positional notation, employing a sign for zero (©), a system of dots (. ..."
4. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"... arithmetical system, and this the Maya possessed; for they had developed a
positional notation, employing a sign for zero (©), a system of dots (. ..."
5. The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of Development by Thomas Muir (1906)
"... proposes for coefficients a positional notation essentially the same as that
of Leibnitz, writing „ where Leibnitz wrote 12 or 12. ..."
6. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1920)
"... arithmetical system, and this the Maya possessed; for they had developed a
positional notation, employing a sign for zero (© ), a system of dots (. ..."
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