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  2. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    Positional notation, ... For example, the mean synodic month used by both Babylonian and Hellenistic astronomers and still used in the Hebrew calendar is 29; ...

  3. Chess notation - Wikipedia

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    Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Chess notation is used in chess literature, and by players keeping a record of an ongoing game. The earliest systems of notation used lengthy narratives to describe each move; these gradually evolved into more compact notation systems.

  4. Chess annotation symbols - Wikipedia

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    Meaning ! The only move that maintains the current evaluation of the position: If the position is theoretically drawn, this is the only move that does not lose; if the position is theoretically won, this is the only move that secures the win. An "!"

  5. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The positional decimal system is presently universally used in human writing. The base 1000 is also used (albeit not universally), by grouping the digits and considering a sequence of three decimal digits as a single digit. This is the meaning of the common notation 1,000,234,567 used for very large numbers.

  6. Notation system - Wikipedia

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    Positional notation also known as place-value notation, in which each position is related to the next by a multiplier which is called the base of that numeral system Binary notation, a positional notation in base two; Octal notation, a positional notation in base eight, used in some computers; Decimal notation, a positional notation in base ten

  7. Bit numbering - Wikipedia

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    Bit indexing correlates to the positional notation of the value in base 2. For this reason, bit index is not affected by how the value is stored on the device, such as the value's byte order . Rather, it is a property of the numeric value in binary itself.

  8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  9. Radix - Wikipedia

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    In a positional numeral system, the radix (pl.: radices) or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers.For example, for the decimal system (the most common system in use today) the radix is ten, because it uses the ten digits from 0 through 9.