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PRONUNCIATION OF POSITIONAL NOTATION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSITIONAL NOTATION

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Positional notation is a noun.
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WHAT DOES POSITIONAL NOTATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Positional notation

Positional notation or place-value notation is a method of representing or encoding numbers. Positional notation is distinguished from other notations for its use of the same symbol for the different orders of magnitude. This greatly simplified arithmetic led to the quick spread of the notation across the world. With the use of a radix point, the notation can be extended to include fractions and the numeric expansions of real numbers. The Babylonian numeral system, base-60, was the first positional system developed, and is still used today to count time and angles. The Hindu–Arabic numeral system, base-10, is the most commonly used system in the world today for most calculations.

Definition of positional notation in the English dictionary

The definition of positional notation in the dictionary is the method of denoting numbers by the use of a finite number of digits, each digit having its value multiplied by its place value, as in 936 = + + 6.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSITIONAL NOTATION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE POSITIONAL NOTATION

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Synonyms and antonyms of positional notation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «positional notation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSITIONAL NOTATION

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The translations of positional notation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «positional notation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

位置表示法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

notación posicional
570 millions of speakers

English

positional notation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थितीय अंकन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تدوين الموضعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

позиционное обозначение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

notação posicional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবস্থানগত নোটেশন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

notation positionnelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Notasi kedudukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stellenschreibweise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

位取り記数法
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위치 표기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Notasi posisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ký hiệu vị trí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலைநாட்டல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्थितीय नोटेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Konumsal gösterim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

notazione posizionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

notacja pozycyjna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позиційне позначення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

notație pozițional
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σημειογραφία θέσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

posisionele notasie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

positionsnotation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

posisjonsnotasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of positional notation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSITIONAL NOTATION»

The term «positional notation» is used very little and occupies the 166.836 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSITIONAL NOTATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about positional notation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSITIONAL NOTATION»

Discover the use of positional notation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to positional notation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wavelet Analysis: The Scalable Structure of Information : ...
3.2. The. Democratization. of. Arithmetic: Positional. Notation. for. Numbers. The most important example of a multiresolution analysis is positional notation for numbers. Positional notation, first introduced by Babylonian mathematicians about ...
Howard L. Resnikoff, Raymond O'Neil Wells, 1998
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming
Positional notation In every example so far, I have employed positional notation to guide PL/SQL through the parameters. With positional notation, PL/SQL relies on the relative positions ofthe parameters to make the correspondence: it ...
Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, 2014
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Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge: An Interaction
Taking the case of numerical notation, the modern system of Arabic decimal numerals uses a positional notation, the base 10, and the numeral zero. In this system a numeral signifies a sum of products of powers of the base, the power being ...
Terry Dartnall, 2002
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Fundamental Number Theory with Applications
Richard A. Mollin. in decimal positional notation. Moreover, a document was discovered in India, dated 738 A.D., where a dot, • , was used as a symbol for a zero on a land grant. In around 825 A.D., the Persian mathematician Mohammed ibn ...
Richard A. Mollin, 1997
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Integers and Theory of Numbers
The Positional Notation Before proceeding with a study of natural numbers it is appropriate to devote a few words to their notation , that is, to the numeral system. The difficulty involved in the notation of numbers arises from the fact that infinitely  ...
Abraham Adolf Fraenkel, 2004
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The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth ...
An abbreviated numerical notation – a system of positional notation – is a precursor to the notational systems with a zero symbol. Positional notation is based explicitly on the numerical vocabulary of a spoken language, with the numerals that ...
Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, 2010
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Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine
The Arabic system uses a positional notation system to represent values with a relatively small number of different symbols. That is, the Arabic representation takes into consideration not only the symbol itself, but the position of the symbol in a ...
Randall Hyde, 2004
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Numerical Notation: A Comparative History
Similarly, while Greek and Arab astronomers used positional fractions with a zero , these had a sexagesimal (Babylonian-derived) base and never used positional notation for whole numbers. Thus, there is no apparent historical relation ...
Stephen Chrisomalis, 2010
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Pro Oracle SQL
... can write FOR loops as a way to create or modify many cells in an arraylike fashion. Positional. Notation. Positional notation provides the ability to insert a new cell or update an existing cell in the result set. If the referenced cell exists in the ...
Karen Morton, Kerry Osborne, Robyn Sands, 2013
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Pharmaceutical Calculations: The Pharmacist's Handbook
The Roman system of notation is used to express a large range of numbers by the use of eight base letters of the alphabet in a simple "positional" notation to indicate adding to or subtracting from the succession of letter-values. The base letters ...
Howard C. Ansel, Shelly J. Prince, 2004

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSITIONAL NOTATION»

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5 Amazing Facts About the Maya Culture You Will Find Fascinating!
It is the first documented use of zero using positional notation. Highly skilled mathematicians, the Mayans used the zero in their very complex ... «The Yucatan Times, May 15»
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Where is the Islamic Renaissance?
Our numbering system (zero, positional notation, Arabic numerals) was invented in India but introduced into Europe by North African Arabs a ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
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Maths From An Extra Terrestrial Civilization - What Could It Be Like …
Positional notation with zeroes. The Babylonians had a primitive place notation - but without a trailing zero. They had base 60, but if we had the ... «Science 2.0, Jun 14»
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Marvel Declares War on Base Ten Numeric System with. NOW, .INH …
... numeric system is a longstanding cornerstone of human civilization, which features the use of ten numbers to represent positional notation for ... «The Outhouse, Sep 13»
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The Trouble With Trillions
"You might imagine," Rockmore speculates, "that before positional notation we had a greater appreciation for big numbers — the number of ... «NPR, Aug 11»
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Forcing Keyword Parameters
In addition to OCL, other languages that use positional notation are the CALLP opcode in RPG and Unix (and Unix-like) shells, including Qshell ... «IT Jungle, Jun 11»
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India's High-Tech in the 5th Century (Part II)
... as explained in depth by Denis Guedj of the University of Paris, India invented the "wonderful system" of the zero and positional notation, ... «The Globalist, Apr 09»

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