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I dislike PARDEEP BHANDARI's revision because it contains redundant wording, for example "recognizes and hence uses" and the fact that "symbol (or digit or numeral)" is repeated three times. "It must also be noted that various Positional Numeral Systems differ from one another mainly due to Base/Radix they use." is entirely redundant since this fact follows from the definition. And it is not only the "main" difference, but the only difference. This version also has the problem that it erroneously capitalizes every other word.

- Fredrik | talk 21:17, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The sentence

"When describing radix in mathematical notation, b is generally used as a symbol for this concept; so, for a binary system, b equals 2."

sounds confusing. I don't understand what's meant. I would have guessed that a trailing "b" can be used instead of using 2 as subscript e.g., 101b equals 101₂ (5 in decimal). However it reads as if you could replace any 2 with "b". Maybe it's meant that b is used as subscript. If that's true, the sentence should be changed to

"When describing radix in mathematical notation, the letter b - for binary - is generally used as subscript instead of 2 e.g., 101_b."

I assume b stands for binary and b being the second letter of the latin alphabet is just a conincident with no relevance but it could cause another misunderstanding like "c means base 3" etc. --82.141.48.176 15:24, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, it looks like this is completely different: b is used as short for base and you would write "101 (b=2)". Well, but I'm not certain. In case that's correct I'd suggest to use something else than the binary system because that may cause confusion - to me at least. I figured that out by reading the German wiki article de:Stellenwertsystem. Unfortunately, the English version is very different and doesn't mention this b-adic notation. There's no article for b-adic and I don't know the equivalent English term. It's possibly Positional notation but that one doesn't mention b as short for base at all. --82.141.48.176 15:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I also think that b stands for base, I'm almost sure of it :),I find this article quite stub i actualy haven't found out anything about Base of positional numeral system that i didn't know before I was looking for info weather base could be negative it seems possible to me but i couldn't find anywere example of it, I checked the article on MathWorld on base, found that it's possible to use Irational number as base, but nothing about negative number :( anyway, i'll add link to the math world since it has much better article about base, I hope that someone with better knowledge of mathematics will revrite this document --Defufna 15:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge

I've merged Radix to Base (mathematics). (See Talk:Base (mathematics).) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-06 09:17Z

Note

The corresponding history for the text of this talk page can be found at Talk:Radix/Old history. Graham87 13:20, 26 December 2013 (UTC)