The unary numeral system is the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers: to represent a number N, a symbol representing 1 is repeated N times. [2] In the unary system, the number 0 (zero) is represented by the empty string , that is, the absence of a symbol.

A numeral system (or system of numeration) is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner.. The same sequence of symbols may represent different numbers in different numeral systems. For example, "11" represents the number eleven in the decimal …

The number one is important for computer science, because the binary numeral system uses only 1s and 0s to represent numbers. In machine code and many programming languages, one means "true" (or "yes") and zero means "false" (or "no"). Other meanings. In Germany and Austria, one is the grade for "very good". It is the best grade of six possible ...

May 13, 2011 · unary; binary; ternary; quaternion; ... As the Wikipedia page "List of Numeral Systems" (bit.ly/1U8j5t9) points out, the word for base-11 is undecimal; and as @Cerberus pointed out below, after 3 the suffixes change from -us-to -nary. So one could adapt the numeral system term for list purposes in this way. :) – SarahofGaia. Aug 23, 2015 at ...