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number system

Method of writing numerals to represent numbers. The use of zero as a placeholder was the greatest advance in number systems. The most common system is the decimal system, in which 10 symbols (the Hindu-Arabic numerals) denote multiples of powers of 10 by their position relative to the decimal point. Computers have brought greater awareness of the binary number system, in which two symbols, 0 and 1, represent multiples of powers of 2.


number system [′nəm·bər ‚sis·təm]
(mathematics)
A mathematical system, such as the real or complex numbers, the quaternions, or the Cayley numbers, that satisfies many of the axioms of the real number system; in general, it is a finite-dimensional vector space over the real numbers with multiplicative operation under which it is an associative or nonassociative division algebra.


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