e/Quater-imaginary base

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has glosseng: The quater-imaginary numeral system was first proposed by Donald Knuth in 1955, in a submission to a high-school science talent search. It is a non-standard positional numeral system which uses the imaginary number 2i as its base. It is able to represent every complex number using only the digits 0, 1, 2, and 3. (Numbers less than zero, which are ordinarily represented with a minus sign, are representable as digit strings in quater-imaginary; for example, the number −1 is represented as "103" in quater-imaginary notation.)
lexicalizationeng: Quater-imaginary base
lexicalizationeng: Quaterimaginary base
instance of(noun) 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
positional notation, positional representation system
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has glossfra: Le système de numération quater-imaginaire fut proposé en premier par Donald Knuth en 1955, lors dune soumission à une recherche de talent scientifique au lycée. Cest un système de numération positionnel non-standard qui utilise le nombre imaginaire 2i\, pour base. Par analogie avec le système de numération quaternaire, il est capable de représenter chaque nombre complexe en utilisant seulement les chiffres 0, 1, 2 et 3, sans un signe.
lexicalizationfra: Systeme quater-imaginaire
lexicalizationfra: Système quater-imaginaire

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