Numeration Past, present, and future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11936092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Marchal (Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-167 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/isr.1995.20.2.161 |
| OpenAlex | W2013189632 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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 numbers is proposed: a numeration by 'figures and sizes
Arithmetic · Decimal · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Fraction (chemistry · Linguistics · Programming language · Simple (philosophy · Zero (linguistics · Computer Science · History and Theory of Mathematics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |