MATHEMATICAL NOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mathematical notation mean? 

• MATHEMATICAL NOTATION (noun)
  The noun MATHEMATICAL NOTATION has 1 sense:

1. a notation used by mathematicians

  Familiarity information: MATHEMATICAL NOTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATHEMATICAL NOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A notation used by mathematicians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mathematical notation" is a kind of...):

notation; notational system (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical notation"):

number representation system; number system; numeration system; system of numeration (any notation for the representation of numbers)

binary notation (any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1))

decimal notation (any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9))

octal notation (any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7))

duodecimal notation (any notation that uses 12 different characters)

hexadecimal notation; sexadecimal notation (any notation that uses 16 different characters)

sign (a character indicating a relation between quantities)

decimal point; percentage point; point (the dot at the left of a decimal fraction)

exponent; index; power (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)

fixed-point notation; fixed-point representation system (a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention)

floating-point notation; floating-point representation system (a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent)

infix notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence; operators are dispersed among the operands)

parenthesis-free notation (a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components)

Holonyms ("mathematical notation" is a part of...):

mathematical statement (a statement of a mathematical relation)

 Context examples 

A theoretical measure of the execution of an algorithm, usually the time or memory needed, given the problem size n, which is usually the number of items; a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions.

(Big-O Notation, NCI Thesaurus)