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MATHEMATICAL NOTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A notation used by mathematicians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mathematical notation" is a kind of...):
notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical notation"):
number representation system; number system; numeration system; system of numeration (any notation for the representation of numbers)
binary notation (any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1))
decimal notation (any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9))
octal notation (any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7))
duodecimal notation (any notation that uses 12 different characters)
hexadecimal notation; sexadecimal notation (any notation that uses 16 different characters)
sign (a character indicating a relation between quantities)
decimal point; percentage point; point (the dot at the left of a decimal fraction)
exponent; index; power (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)
fixed-point notation; fixed-point representation system (a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention)
floating-point notation; floating-point representation system (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)
infix notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence; operators are dispersed among the operands)
parenthesis-free notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components)
Holonyms ("mathematical notation" is a part of...):
mathematical statement (a statement of a mathematical relation)
