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Decimal notation

noun

Any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9).

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... this ['s][u]nya as a symbol was not used before about 500 A.D., although some writers have placed it earlier.[147] Since [A]ryabha[t.]a gives our common method of extracting roots, it would seem that he may have known a decimal notation,[148] although he did not use the characters from which our numerals are derived.[149] Moreover, he frequently speaks of the {44} void.[150] If he refers to a symbol this would put the zero as far back as 500 A.D., but of course he may have referred ...

— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith

... high as 100,000. But mere counting does not imply either the possession or the use of anything that can be really called the mathematical faculty, the exercise of which in any broad sense has only been possible since the introduction of the decimal notation. The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Jews, and the Chinese had all such cumbrous systems, that anything like a science of arithmetic, beyond very simple operations, was impossible; and the Roman system, by which the year 1888 would be written MDCCCLXXXVIII, was that ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace