Numeric and counting systems
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Number systems
Position based
- Bengali numerals
- Devanagari numerals
- Gujarati numerals
- Gurmukhi numerals
- Hindu-Arabic numerals
- Kannada numerals
- Kayah numerals
- Khmer numerals
- Lao numerals
- Malayalam numerals
- Myanmar numerals
- Nko numerals
- Oriya numerals
- Osmanya numerals
- Tamil numerals
- Telugu numerals
- Thai numerals
- Tibetan numerals
- Vai numerals
Positionless
Bases
| Name | Base | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| binary | 2 | |
| octal | 8 | |
| decimal | 10 | |
| dozenal | 12 | |
| hexadecimal | 16 | See also Hex encoding. |
| vigesimal | 20 |
Number classes
- natural number
- whole number
- real number
- transcendental number
- fraction
- imaginary number
- algebraic number
- computable number
- definable number
Types of infinity
Methods of digitally encoding numeric values can be found in Elements of File Formats.
