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  2. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system . They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded.

  3. List of numeral system topics - Wikipedia

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    Tally mark – Numeral form used for counting-yllion – Mathematical notation This page was last edited on 24 January 2025, at 18:33 (UTC). Text is available ...

  4. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The number of tally marks required in the unary numeral system for describing the weight would have been w. In the positional system, the number of digits required to describe it is only k + 1 = log b ⁡ w + 1 {\displaystyle k+1=\log _{b}w+1} , for k ≥ 0.

  5. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks: Usually used for counting things that increase by small amounts and do not change very quickly. Fractions: A representation of a non-integer as a ratio of two integers. These include improper fractions as well as mixed numbers.

  6. Counting Rod Numerals - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals L2/16-065 Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-03-14), Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks

  7. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    (many) Dingbat: Dinkus, Fleuron ⌀ Diameter: Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set " Ditto mark: Quotation mark: ÷: Division sign: Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) Combining Diacritical Marks ⹀ ⸗ Double hyphen: Almost equal to … Ellipsis = Equals sign ...

  8. The Amazon Prime symbol probably doesn't mean what you think ...

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    In actuality, any of Amazon's 3 million marketplace sellers can use the Amazon warehouse to house and ship their items and get the so-called "coveted" mark on its products.

  9. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks, Counting. Unary numbering is used as part of some data compression algorithms such as Golomb coding. It also forms the basis for the Peano axioms for formalizing arithmetic within mathematical logic. A form of unary notation called Church encoding is used to represent numbers within lambda calculus.