Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word NUMERATION
NUMERATION
Definitions of NUMERATION
- Any system of giving names to numbers.
- The act of counting or numbering; enumeration.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using NUMERATION in a Sentence
- The ahnentafel system of numeration is also known as the Eytzinger Method, for Michaël Eytzinger, the Austrian-born historian who first published the principles of the system in 1590; the Sosa Method, named for Jerónimo (Jerome) de Sosa, the Spanish genealogist who popularized the numbering system in his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676; and the Sosa–Stradonitz Method, for Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz, the genealogist and son of chemist Friedrich August Kekulé, who published his interpretation of Sosa's method in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898.
- In ancient times, Tau was used as a symbol for life or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (ninth in the archaic form anciently used for numeration), theta, was considered the symbol of death.
- The usual ordinal form is "twelfth" but "dozenth" or "duodecimal" (from the Latin word) is also used in some contexts, particularly base-12 numeration.
- In his numeration, textual critic Johann Jakob Wettstein gave the siglum 110 to Codex Ravianus (also called Berolinensis), a transcription from the Complutensian Polyglot (the earliest printed multi-languaged Bible) so slavish that it copies even typographical errors from that exemplar.
- The author had found that using Sinhala Swara in place of numeration could be traced back to Aryabhata's (the great Indian Mathematician and Astronomer) numbering system where he used Sanskrit Swaras in place of numerals.
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