Christian Marchal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6462289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Marchal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Marchal |
| SIGNATURE | MARCHAL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Numeration Past, present, and future
Five ancient numerations are reviewed and their main advantages and drawbacks are compared. The inventions of the numeration of position, of the zero, of the fraction bar, and of decimal numbers required millennia, and ideas from all over the world. Today's mathematicians have more than 10 types of number, but the expression of very large numbers remains unsatisfactory. A clear, simple, and efficient expression for very large and very small numbe…
Numeration Past, present, and future
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Numeration Past, present, and future
Five ancient numerations are reviewed and their main advantages and drawbacks are compared. The inventions of the numeration of position, of the zero, of the fraction bar, and of decimal numbers required millennia, and ideas from all over the world. Today's mathematicians have more than 10 types of number, but the expression of very large numbers remains unsatisfactory. A clear, simple, and efficient expression for very large and very small numbe…
Numeration Past, present, and future
Computer Science (2 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (2 works) · Arithmetic (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Decimal (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Expression (computer science (1 work) · Fraction (chemistry (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)