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What is the term for groups of numerals within a large number?
I am writing software in which I would like to be able to return the groups of numerals within a large number. For example, given a number 123,456,789, my software would return 123 then 456 then 789.
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Name for number format used in “Section 3.2.1”
Does that kind of numbering style have a common name or names? To be fair, it is really more of an "identifier" since it certainly not a scalar (one-dimensional) number. It isn't fair to call it a ...
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What are these symbols called in the English language?
You see these all the time in movies, usually when some poor guy has been wrongly imprisoned and begins counting the days since his incarceration, but what are these markings called? I used to know, ...
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What follows next in the sequence “unary, binary, ternary…”?
I looked on Oxford's online dictionary and was able to find the names identifying orders of a given degree:
primary
secondary
tertiary
quaternary
quinary
senary
septenary
octonary
nonary
denary
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