numeration
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In 1931 Cœdès concluded that the numeration system used in the inscribed date, 605, was decimal in nature and positional in conception and that the central glyph was an empty placeholder, a zero.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022
Researchers at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur have been investigating the history of early numeration systems of Southeast Asia.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022
A variation of Raddix — radix — is a mathematical term for the basis of a system of numeration.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020
Each personage�a hulking pro football player, symmetrical in size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone�juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a blank spot in the Babylonian system of numeration.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
