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notation: see arithmetic arithmetic, branch of mathematics commonly considered a separate branch but in actuality a part of algebra . Conventionally the term has been most widely applied to simple teaching of the skills of dealing with Numbers for practical purposes, e.g.
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 and musical notation musical notation, symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds.

Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece. In his five textbooks on music theory Boethius (c.A.D. 470–A.D.
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notation

How a system of numbers, phrases, words or quantities is written or expressed. Positional notation is the location and value of digits in a numbering system, such as the decimal or binary system.


notation [nō′tā·shən]
(computer science)
(mathematics)
The use of symbols to denote quantities or operations.


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Encourage students to develop their own notational system and analytical symbols.
His theory goes on to distinguish semantic and syntactic features, symbol "systems" and symbol "schemes"; it maps out "routes of reference," notions of "compliance," and a variety of criteria for notational systems, as distinct from linguistic and representational systems.
by the standard notational systems of Western music.
 
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