Why? • A power programmer must know number systems and data representation to fully understand C’s primitive data types Primitive values and the operations on them

In the decimal number system, there are ten possible values that can appear in each digit position, and so there are ten numerals required to represent the quantity in each digit …

This points out to the need of study of number system and its extensions in the curriculum. In this lesson, we will present a brief review of natural numbers, whole numbers and integers.

Number System Decimal System It has 10 digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 It's also known as Base 10 or Radix 10 system

The Babylonian number system began with tally marks just as most of the ancient math systems did. The Babylonians developed a form of writing based on cuneiform.

In recent times the decimal system has received serious competition from the binary and ternary systems, which are “ preferred” by modern computers. In this pamphlet we will discuss the …

Some might say their numeration system was faulty, but that would be overly critical, since they were the first (as far as we know) to have any way of giving names to fractions.