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  2. Integer (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The meanings of terms derived from word, such as longword, doubleword, quadword, and halfword, also vary with the CPU and OS. [7] Practically all new desktop processors are capable of using 64-bit words, though embedded processors with 8- and 16-bit word size are still common. The 36-bit word length was common in the early days of computers.

  3. Googol - Wikipedia

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    Widespread sounding of the word occurs through the name of the company Google, with the name "Google" being an accidental misspelling of "googol" by the company's founders, [9] which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. [10]

  4. Natural number - Wikipedia

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    Standard Roman numerals do not have a symbol for 0; instead, nulla (or the genitive form nullae) from nullus, the Latin word for "none", was employed to denote a 0 value. [15] The first systematic study of numbers as abstractions is usually credited to the Greek philosophers Pythagoras and Archimedes. Some Greek mathematicians treated the ...

  5. Number theory - Wikipedia

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    Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions.German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics."

  6. Real number - Wikipedia

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    The uniqueness result at the end of that section justifies using the word "the" in the phrase "complete ordered field" when this is the sense of "complete" that is meant. This sense of completeness is most closely related to the construction of the reals from Dedekind cuts, since that construction starts from an ordered field (the rationals ...

  7. Ternary numeral system - Wikipedia

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    A ternary / ˈ t ɜːr n ər i / numeral system (also called base 3 or trinary [1]) has three as its base.Analogous to a bit, a ternary digit is a trit (trinary digit).One trit is equivalent to log 2 3 (about 1.58496) bits of information.

  8. Decimal - Wikipedia

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    A straightforward decimal rank system with a word for each order (10 十, 100 百, 1000 千, 10,000 万), and in which 11 is expressed as ten-one and 23 as two-ten-three, and 89,345 is expressed as 8 (ten thousands) 万 9 (thousand) 千 3 (hundred) 百 4 (tens) 十 5 is found in Chinese, and in Vietnamese with a few irregularities.

  9. Bulat - Wikipedia

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    Bulat is both a masculine give name and surname with various origins. As a masculine given name, it is derived from a Turkic word meaning "steel", ultimately from Persian . [ 1 ]