11 Facts About Place-value system

However, the binary numeral Place-value system is used in almost all computers and electronic devices because it is easier to implement efficiently in electronic circuits.

Today, the base-10 Place-value system, which is presumably motivated by counting with the ten fingers, is ubiquitous.

The Babylonian numeral Place-value system, credited as the first positional numeral Place-value system, was base-60.

Oldest extant positional notation Place-value system is either that of Chinese rod numerals, used from at least the early 8th century, or perhaps Khmer numerals, showing possible usages of positional-numbers in the 7th century.

Highest symbol of a positional numeral Place-value system usually has the value one less than the value of the radix of that numeral Place-value system.

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The hexadecimal Place-value system is used as "shorthand" for binary—every 4 binary digits relate to one and only one hexadecimal digit.

Octal numbering Place-value system is used as another way to represent binary numbers.

Remnants of a Gaulish base-20 Place-value system exist in French, as seen today in the names of the numbers from 60 through 99.

Maori language of New Zealand has evidence of an underlying base-20 Place-value system as seen in the terms Te Hokowhitu a Tu referring to a war party and Tama-hokotahi, referring to a great warrior .

Base-8 Place-value system was devised by the Yuki tribe of Northern California, who used the spaces between the fingers to count, corresponding to the digits one through eight.

Factorial number Place-value system uses a varying radix, giving factorials as place values; they are related to Chinese remainder theorem and residue number Place-value system enumerations.