MATHEMATICAL NOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mathematical notation mean? 

• MATHEMATICAL NOTATION (noun)
  The noun MATHEMATICAL NOTATION has 1 sense:

1. a notation used by mathematicians

  Familiarity information: MATHEMATICAL NOTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATHEMATICAL NOTATION (noun)

Meaning:

A notation used by mathematicians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mathematical notation" is a kind of...):

notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical notation"):

parenthesis-free notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components)

infix notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence; operators are dispersed among the operands)

floating-point notation; floating-point representation system (a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent)

fixed-point notation; fixed-point representation system (a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention)

radical; radical sign (a sign placed in front of an expression to denote that a root is to be extracted)

exponent; index; power (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)

decimal point; percentage point (the dot at the left of a decimal fraction)

sign (a character indicating a relation between quantities)

hexadecimal notation; sexadecimal notation (any notation that uses 16 different characters)

duodecimal notation (any notation that uses 12 different characters)

octal notation (any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7))

decimal notation (any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9))

binary notation (any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1))

number representation system; number system; numeration system; system of numeration (any notation for the representation of numbers)

Holonyms ("mathematical notation" is a part of...):

mathematical statement (a statement of a mathematical relation)