numeration
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In 1931 Cœdès concluded that the numeration system used in the inscribed date, 605, was decimal in nature and positional in conception and that the central glyph was an empty placeholder, a zero.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022
Researchers at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur have been investigating the history of early numeration systems of Southeast Asia.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022
A variation of Raddix — radix — is a mathematical term for the basis of a system of numeration.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020
But this one-by-one behavior is unquestionably the embryological root and prerequisite of later mathematical numeration and comprehension.
From Time Magazine Archive
This number was so large that the Greek system of numeration was unable to handle it; Archimedes had to invent a whole new method of denoting really huge numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
