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The term notation can reffer to:
- Symbol, something that stands for or suggests something else
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Mathematics
- Mathematical notation is used to represent ideas.
- All types of notation in probability
- Cartesian coordinate system, for representing position and other spatial concepts in analytic geometry
- Leibnitz notation, the standard representation for Calculus
- Big O notation, used for example in analysis to represent less significant elements of an expression, to indicate that they will be neglected
- Z notation, a formal notation for specifying objects using Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and first-order predicate logic
- Systems to represent very large numbers
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
- Chemical formula
- Lewis structure, denotes chemical bonds
Other systems
- Chess notation, to represent moves in a game of chess
- Musical notation, to represent music in a musical composition
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