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System of numeration

noun
1.
Any notation for the representation of numbers.  Synonyms: number representation system, number system, numeration system.






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"System of numeration" Quotes from Famous Books



... might be supposed from the uncultivated state of the people by whom they are spoken. I am far from placing the languages of the New World in the same rank with the finest languages of Asia and Europe; but no one of these latter has a more neat, regular, and simple system of numeration, than the Quichua and the Aztec, which were spoken in the great empires of Cuzco and Anahuac. It is a mistake to suppose that those languages do not admit of counting beyond four, because in villages ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt



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