mathematical notation
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1. a notation used by mathematicians (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | notation, notational system, |
| definition | : | a technical system of symbols used to represent special things (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | binary notation, |
| definition | : | any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | decimal notation, |
| definition | : | any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | octal notation, |
| definition | : | any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | duodecimal notation, |
| definition | : | any notation that uses 12 different characters (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | sign, |
| definition | : | a character indicating a relation between quantities (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | exponent, index, power, |
| definition | : | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | floating-point notation, floating-point representation system, |
| definition | : | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | infix notation, |
| definition | : | a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence; operators are dispersed among the operands (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | parenthesis-free notation, |
| definition | : | a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components (noun.communication) |
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