List of numeral systems

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There are many different numeral systems, that is, writing systems for expressing numbers.

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By culture / time period

NameBaseSampleApprox. First Appearance
Proto-cuneiform numerals 10&60c. 3500–2000 BCE
Indus numerals c. 3500–1900 BCE
Proto-Elamite numerals 10&603,100 BCE
Sumerian numerals 10&603,100 BCE
Egyptian numerals 10
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3,000 BCE
Babylonian numerals 10&60 Babylonian 1.svg Babylonian 2.svg Babylonian 3.svg Babylonian 4.svg Babylonian 5.svg Babylonian 6.svg Babylonian 7.svg Babylonian 8.svg Babylonian 9.svg Babylonian 10.svg 2,000 BCE
Aegean numerals 10𐄇 𐄈 𐄉 𐄊 𐄋 𐄌 𐄍 𐄎 𐄏  ( Aegean numeral 1.svg Aegean numeral 2.svg Aegean numeral 3.svg Aegean numeral 4.svg Aegean numeral 5.svg Aegean numeral 6.svg Aegean numeral 7.svg Aegean numeral 8.svg Aegean numeral 9.svg )
𐄐 𐄑 𐄒 𐄓 𐄔 𐄕 𐄖 𐄗 𐄘  ( Aegean numeral 10.svg Aegean numeral 20.svg Aegean numeral 30.svg Aegean numeral 40.svg Aegean numeral 50.svg Aegean numeral 60.svg Aegean numeral 70.svg Aegean numeral 80.svg Aegean numeral 90.svg )
𐄙 𐄚 𐄛 𐄜 𐄝 𐄞 𐄟 𐄠 𐄡  ( Aegean numeral 100.svg Aegean numeral 200.svg Aegean numeral 300.svg Aegean numeral 400.svg Aegean numeral 500.svg Aegean numeral 600.svg Aegean numeral 700.svg Aegean numeral 800.svg Aegean numeral 900.svg )
𐄢 𐄣 𐄤 𐄥 𐄦 𐄧 𐄨 𐄩 𐄪  ( Aegean numeral 1000.svg Aegean numeral 2000.svg Aegean numeral 3000.svg Aegean numeral 4000.svg Aegean numeral 5000.svg Aegean numeral 6000.svg Aegean numeral 7000.svg Aegean numeral 8000.svg Aegean numeral 9000.svg )
𐄫 𐄬 𐄭 𐄮 𐄯 𐄰 𐄱 𐄲 𐄳  ( Aegean numeral 10000.svg Aegean numeral 20000.svg Aegean numeral 30000.svg Aegean numeral 40000.svg Aegean numeral 50000.svg Aegean numeral 60000.svg Aegean numeral 70000.svg Aegean numeral 80000.svg Aegean numeral 90000.svg )
1,500 BCE
Chinese numerals
Japanese numerals
Korean numerals (Sino-Korean)
Vietnamese numerals (Sino-Vietnamese)
10

零一二三四五六七八九十百千萬億 (Default, Traditional Chinese)
〇一二三四五六七八九十百千万亿 (Default, Simplified Chinese)
零壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾佰仟萬億 (Financial, T. Chinese)
零壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾佰仟萬億 (Financial, S. Chinese)

1,300 BCE
Roman numerals I V X L C D M1,000 BCE
Hebrew numerals 10א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט
י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ
ק ר ש ת ך ם ן ף ץ
800 BCE
Indian numerals 10

Bengali ০ ১ ২ ৩ ৪ ৫ ৬ ৭ ৮ ৯

Devanagari ० १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९

Gujarati ૦ ૧ ૨ ૩ ૪ ૫ ૬ ૭ ૮ ૯

Kannada ೦ ೧ ೨ ೩ ೪ ೫ ೬ ೭ ೮ ೯

Malayalam ൦ ൧ ൨ ൩ ൪ ൫ ൬ ൭ ൮ ൯

Odia ୦ ୧ ୨ ୩ ୪ ୫ ୬ ୭ ୮ ୯

Punjabi ੦ ੧ ੨ ੩ ੪ ੫ ੬ ੭ ੮ ੯

Tamil ௦ ௧ ௨ ௩ ௪ ௫ ௬ ௭ ௮ ௯

Telugu ౦ ౧ ౨ ౩ ౪ ౫ ౬ ౭ ౮ ౯

Tibetan ༠ ༡ ༢ ༣ ༤ ༥ ༦ ༧ ༨ ༩

Urdu ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹

750–500 BCE
Greek numerals 10ō α β γ δ ε ϝ ζ η θ ι
ο Αʹ Βʹ Γʹ Δʹ Εʹ Ϛʹ Ζʹ Ηʹ Θʹ
<400 BCE
Phoenician numerals 10𐤙 𐤘 𐤗 𐤛𐤛𐤛 𐤛𐤛𐤚 𐤛𐤛𐤖 𐤛𐤛 𐤛𐤚 𐤛𐤖 𐤛 𐤚 𐤖 [1] <250 BCE [2]
Chinese rod numerals 10𝍠 𝍡 𝍢 𝍣 𝍤 𝍥 𝍦 𝍧 𝍨 𝍩1st Century
Coptic numerals 10Ⲁ Ⲃ Ⲅ Ⲇ Ⲉ Ⲋ Ⲍ Ⲏ Ⲑ2nd Century
Ge'ez numerals 10፩ ፪ ፫ ፬ ፭ ፮ ፯ ፰ ፱
፲ ፳ ፴ ፵ ፶ ፷ ፸ ፹ ፺ ፻
3rd–4th Century
15th Century (Modern Style) [3]
Armenian numerals 10Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը Թ ԺEarly 5th Century
Khmer numerals 10០ ១ ២ ៣ ៤ ៥ ៦ ៧ ៨ ៩Early 7th Century
Thai numerals 10๐ ๑ ๒ ๓ ๔ ๕ ๖ ๗ ๘ ๙7th Century [4]
Abjad numerals 10غ ظ ض ذ خ ث ت ش ر ق ص ف ع س ن م ل ك ي ط ح ز و هـ د ج ب ا<8th Century
Eastern Arabic numerals 10٩ ٨ ٧ ٦ ٥ ٤ ٣ ٢ ١ ٠8th Century
Vietnamese numerals (Chữ Nôm)10𠬠 𠄩 𠀧 𦊚 𠄼 𦒹 𦉱 𠔭 𠃩<9th Century
Western Arabic numerals 100 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 99th Century
Glagolitic numerals 10Ⰰ Ⰱ Ⰲ Ⰳ Ⰴ Ⰵ Ⰶ Ⰷ Ⰸ ...9th Century
Cyrillic numerals 10а в г д е ѕ з и ѳ і ...10th Century
Rumi numerals 1010th Century
Burmese numerals 10၀ ၁ ၂ ၃ ၄ ၅ ၆ ၇ ၈ ၉11th Century [5]
Tangut numerals 10𘈩 𗍫 𘕕 𗥃 𗏁 𗤁 𗒹 𘉋 𗢭 𗰗11th Century (1036)
Cistercian numerals 10 Cistercian numerals.svg 13th Century
Maya numerals 5&20 0 maia.svg 1 maia.svg 2 maia.svg 3 maia.svg 4 maia.svg 5 maia.svg 6 maia.svg 7 maia.svg 8 maia.svg 9 maia.svg 10 maia.svg 11 maia.svg 12 maia.svg 13 maia.svg 14 maia.svg 15 maia.svg 16 maia.svg 17 maia.svg 18 maia.svg 19 maia.svg <15th Century
Muisca numerals 20 Muisca cyphers acc acosta humboldt zerda.svg <15th Century
Korean numerals (Hangul)10영 일 이 삼 사 오 육 칠 팔 구15th Century (1443)
Aztec numerals 2016th Century
Sinhala numerals 10෦ ෧ ෨ ෩ ෪ ෫ ෬ ෭ ෮ ෯ 𑇡 𑇢 𑇣
𑇤 𑇥 𑇦 𑇧 𑇨 𑇩 𑇪 𑇫 𑇬 𑇭 𑇮 𑇯 𑇰 𑇱 𑇲 𑇳 𑇴
<18th Century
Pentadic runes 10 Pentimal Runes 1 through 10.svg 19th Century
Cherokee numerals 10 Cherokee Numbers - cropped (1-20).png 19th Century (1820s)
Osmanya numerals 10𐒠 𐒡 𐒢 𐒣 𐒤 𐒥 𐒦 𐒧 𐒨 𐒩20th Century (1920s)
Hmong numerals 10𖭐 𖭑 𖭒 𖭓 𖭔 𖭕 𖭖 𖭗 𖭘 𖭙20th Century (1959)
Kaktovik numerals 5&20 Kaktovik digit 0.svg Kaktovik digit 1.svg Kaktovik digit 2.svg Kaktovik digit 3.svg Kaktovik digit 4.svg Kaktovik digit 5.svg Kaktovik digit 6.svg Kaktovik digit 7.svg Kaktovik digit 8.svg Kaktovik digit 9.svg Kaktovik digit 10.svg Kaktovik digit 11.svg Kaktovik digit 12.svg Kaktovik digit 13.svg Kaktovik digit 14.svg Kaktovik digit 15.svg Kaktovik digit 16.svg Kaktovik digit 17.svg Kaktovik digit 18.svg Kaktovik digit 19.svg 20th Century (1994)

By type of notation

Numeral systems are classified here as to whether they use positional notation (also known as place-value notation), and further categorized by radix or base.

Standard positional numeral systems

A binary clock might use LEDs to express binary values. In this clock, each column of LEDs shows a binary-coded decimal numeral of the traditional sexagesimal time. Binary clock.svg
A binary clock might use LEDs to express binary values. In this clock, each column of LEDs shows a binary-coded decimal numeral of the traditional sexagesimal time.

The common names are derived somewhat arbitrarily from a mix of Latin and Greek, in some cases including roots from both languages within a single name. [6] There have been some proposals for standardisation. [7]

BaseNameUsage
2 Binary Digital computing, imperial and customary volume (bushel-kenning-peck-gallon-pottle-quart-pint-cup-gill-jack-fluid ounce-tablespoon)
3 Ternary Cantor set (all points in [0,1] that can be represented in ternary with no 1s); counting Tasbih in Islam; hand-foot-yard and teaspoon-tablespoon-shot measurement systems; most economical integer base
4 Quaternary Chumashan languages and Kharosthi numerals
5 Quinary Gumatj, Ateso, Nunggubuyu, Kuurn Kopan Noot, and Saraveca languages; common count grouping e.g. tally marks
6 Senary, seximal Diceware, Ndom, Kanum, and Proto-Uralic language (suspected)
7Septimal, Septenary [8] Weeks timekeeping, Western music letter notation
8 Octal Charles XII of Sweden, Unix-like permissions, Squawk codes, DEC PDP-11, Yuki, Pame, compact notation for binary numbers, Xiantian (I Ching, China)
9 Nonary, nonal Compact notation for ternary
10 Decimal, denaryMost widely used by contemporary societies [9] [10] [11]
11 Undecimal, unodecimal, undenaryA base-11 number system was attributed to the Māori (New Zealand) in the 19th century [12] and the Pangwa (Tanzania) in the 20th century. [13] Briefly proposed during the French Revolution to settle a dispute between those proposing a shift to duodecimal and those who were content with decimal. Used as a check digit in ISBN for 10-digit ISBNs. Applications in computer science and technology. [14] [15] [16] Featured in popular fiction.
12 Duodecimal, dozenalLanguages in the Nigerian Middle Belt Janji, Gbiri-Niragu, Piti, and the Nimbia dialect of Gwandara; Chepang language of Nepal, and the Mahl dialect of Maldivian; dozen-gross-great gross counting; 12-hour clock and months timekeeping; years of Chinese zodiac; foot and inch; Roman fractions; penny and shilling
13Tredecimal, tridecimal [17] [18] Conway base 13 function.
14Quattuordecimal, quadrodecimal [17] [18] Programming for the HP 9100A/B calculator [19] and image processing applications; [20] pound and stone.
15Quindecimal, pentadecimal [21] [18] Telephony routing over IP, and the Huli language.
16 Hexadecimal, sexadecimal, sedecimalCompact notation for binary data; tonal system; ounce and pound.
17Septendecimal, heptadecimal [21] [18]
18Octodecimal [21] [18] A base in which 7n is palindromic for n = 3, 4, 6, 9.
19Undevicesimal, nonadecimal [21] [18]
20 Vigesimal Basque, Celtic, Muisca, Inuit, Yoruba, Tlingit, and Dzongkha numerals; Santali, and Ainu languages; shilling and pound
5&20 Quinary-vigesimal [22] [23] [24] Greenlandic, Iñupiaq, Kaktovik, Maya, Nunivak Cupʼig, and Yupʼik numerals – "wide-spread... in the whole territory from Alaska along the Pacific Coast to the Orinoco and the Amazon" [22]
21The smallest base in which all fractions 1/2 to 1/18 have periods of 4 or shorter.
23 Kalam language, [25] Kobon language [ citation needed ]
24 Quadravigesimal [26] 24-hour clock timekeeping; Greek alphabet; Kaugel language.
25Sometimes used as compact notation for quinary.
26 Hexavigesimal [26] [27] Sometimes used for encryption or ciphering, [28] using all letters in the English alphabet
27Septemvigesimal Telefol, [29] Oksapmin, [30] Wambon, [31] and Hewa [32] languages. Mapping the nonzero digits to the alphabet and zero to the space is occasionally used to provide checksums for alphabetic data such as personal names, [33] to provide a concise encoding of alphabetic strings, [34] or as the basis for a form of gematria. [35] Compact notation for ternary.
28Months timekeeping.
30TrigesimalThe Natural Area Code, this is the smallest base such that all of 1/2 to 1/6 terminate, a number n is a regular number if and only if 1/n terminates in base 30.
32 Duotrigesimal Found in the Ngiti language.
33Use of letters (except I, O, Q) with digits in vehicle registration plates of Hong Kong.
34Using all numbers and all letters except I and O; the smallest base where 1/2 terminates and all of 1/2 to 1/18 have periods of 4 or shorter.
35Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O.
36 Hexatrigesimal [36] [37] Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet.
37Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the Spanish alphabet.
38Covers the duodecimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet.
40Quadragesimal DEC RADIX 50/MOD40 encoding used to compactly represent file names and other symbols on Digital Equipment Corporation computers. The character set is a subset of ASCII consisting of space, upper case letters, the punctuation marks "$", ".", and "%", and the numerals.
42Largest base for which all minimal primes are known.
47Smallest base for which no generalized Wieferich primes are known.
49Compact notation for septenary.
50Quinquagesimal SQUOZE encoding used to compactly represent file names and other symbols on some IBM computers. Encoding using all Gurmukhi characters plus the Gurmukhi digits.
52Covers the digits and letters assigned to base 62 apart from the basic vowel letters; [38] similar to base 26 but distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters.
56A variant of base 58.[ clarification needed ] [39]
57Covers base 62 apart from I, O, l, U, and u, [40] or I, 1, l, 0, and O. [41]
58Covers base 62 apart from 0 (zero), I (capital i), O (capital o) and l (lower case L). [42]
60 Sexagesimal Babylonian numerals and Sumerian; degrees-minutes-seconds and hours-minutes-seconds measurement systems; Ekari; covers base 62 apart from I, O, and l, but including _(underscore). [43]
62 Can be notated with the digits 0–9 and the cased letters A–Z and a–z of the English alphabet.
64 Tetrasexagesimal I Ching in China.
This system is conveniently coded into ASCII by using the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet in both upper and lower case (52 total) plus 10 numerals (62 total) and then adding two special characters (+ and /).
72The smallest base greater than binary such that no three-digit narcissistic number exists.
80OctogesimalUsed as a sub-base in Supyire.
85 Ascii85 encoding. This is the minimum number of characters needed to encode a 32 bit number into 5 printable characters in a process similar to MIME-64 encoding, since 855 is only slightly bigger than 232. Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters.
89Largest base for which all left-truncatable primes are known.
90NonagesimalRelated to Goormaghtigh conjecture for the generalized repunit numbers (111 in base 90 = 1111111111111 in base 2).
95Number of printable ASCII characters. [44]
96Total number of character codes in the (six) ASCII sticks containing printable characters.
97Smallest base which is not perfect odd power (where generalized Wagstaff numbers can be factored algebraically) for which no generalized Wagstaff primes are known.
100CentesimalAs 100=102, these are two decimal digits.
121Number expressible with two undecimal digits.
125Number expressible with three quinary digits.
128Using as 128=27.[ clarification needed ]
144Number expressible with two duodecimal digits.
169Number expressible with two tridecimal digits.
185Smallest base which is not a perfect power (where generalized repunits can be factored algebraically) for which no generalized repunit primes are known.
196Number expressible with two tetradecimal digits.
210Smallest base such that all fractions 1/2 to 1/10 terminate.
225Number expressible with two pentadecimal digits.
256Number expressible with eight binary digits.
360 Degrees of angle.

Non-standard positional numeral systems

Bijective numeration

BaseNameUsage
1 Unary (Bijective base1) Tally marks, Counting
10 Bijective base-10 To avoid zero
26 Bijective base-26 Spreadsheet column numeration. Also used by John Nash as part of his obsession with numerology and the uncovering of "hidden" messages. [45]

Signed-digit representation

BaseNameUsage
2Balanced binary (Non-adjacent form)
3 Balanced ternary Ternary computers
4Balanced quaternary
5Balanced quinary
6Balanced senary
7Balanced septenary
8Balanced octal
9Balanced nonary
10Balanced decimal John Colson
Augustin Cauchy
11Balanced undecimal
12Balanced duodecimal

Complex bases

BaseNameUsage
2i Quater-imaginary base related to base −4 and base 16
Base related to base −2 and base 4
Base related to base 2
Base related to base 8
Base related to base 2
−1 ± i Twindragon base Twindragon fractal shape, related to base −4 and base 16
1 ± iNegatwindragon baserelated to base −4 and base 16

Non-integer bases

BaseNameUsage
Base a rational non-integer base
Base related to duodecimal
Base related to decimal
Base related to base 2
Base related to base 3
Base
Base
Base usage in 12-tone equal temperament musical system
Base
Base a negative rational non-integer base
Base a negative non-integer base, related to base 2
Base related to decimal
Base related to duodecimal
φ Golden ratio base Early Beta encoder [46]
ρ Plastic number base
ψ Supergolden ratio base
Silver ratio base
e Base Lowest radix economy
π Base
e π Base
Base

n-adic number

BaseNameUsage
2Dyadic number
3Triadic number
4Tetradic numberthe same as dyadic number
5Pentadic number
6Hexadic numbernot a field
7Heptadic number
8Octadic numberthe same as dyadic number
9Enneadic numberthe same as triadic number
10Decadic numbernot a field
11Hendecadic number
12Dodecadic numbernot a field

Mixed radix

  • Factorial number system {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...}
  • Even double factorial number system {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, ...}
  • Odd double factorial number system {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, ...}
  • Primorial number system {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ...}
  • Fibonorial number system {1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...}
  • {60, 60, 24, 7} in timekeeping
  • {60, 60, 24, 30 (or 31 or 28 or 29), 12, 10, 10, 10} in timekeeping
  • (12, 20) traditional English monetary system (£sd)
  • (20, 18, 13) Maya timekeeping

Other

Non-positional notation

All known numeral systems developed before the Babylonian numerals are non-positional, [47] as are many developed later, such as the Roman numerals. The French Cistercian monks created their own numeral system.

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Alphasyllabic numeral systems are a type of numeral systems, developed mostly in India starting around 500 AD. Based on various alphasyllabic scripts, in this type of numeral systems glyphs of the numerals are not abstract signs, but syllables of a script, and numerals are represented with these syllable-signs. On the basic principle of these systems, numeric values of the syllables are defined by the consonants and vowels which constitute them, so that consonants and vowels are - or are not in some systems in case of vowels - ordered to numeric values. While there are many hundreds of possible syllables in a script, and since in alphasyllabic numeral systems several syllables receive the same numeric value, so the mapping is not injective.

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