positional notation

Questions about positional notation

What does positional notation mean?

positional notation means "a numeration system in which a real number is represented by an ordered set of characters where the value of a character depends on its position".

What is another word for positional notation?

Close synonyms include positional representation system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is positional notation a common word?

positional notation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.