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The term notation can reffer to:
- Symbol, something that stands for or suggests something else
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Mathematics
Typographical conventions
- Infix notation for representing calculations in an almost linguistic format, such as a+b-c
- Polish notation or prefix notation, which places the operator before the operands, such as + a b
- Reverse Polish notation or postfix notation, which places the operator after the operands, such as a b +
- Numeral systems, notation for writing numbers, including
- Positional notation also known as place-value notation, like our decimal system in which the meaning of a digit depends on its place in a number.
- sign-value notation such as Roman numerals. Before the sexagesimal system standardized ancient numbers, dozens of different sign-value number systems were used. Different cities and different trades used different sign-value notation.
- 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.
- hexadecimal notation, a positional notation in base sixteen, commonly used in computers.
- sexagesimal notation, an ancient numeral system in base sixty.
- scientific notation for expressing large and small numbers.
- See also Table of mathematical symbols - for general tokens and their definitions.
Physics
- Bra-ket notation or Dirac Notation is another representation of probability in quantum mechanics
- Tensor notationis a general way to represent a gravitational field in general relativity
Chemistry
Other systems
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