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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of writing numbers in which the position of a digit affects its value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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