BRIEF HISTORY OF NUMBER SYSTEM Flashcards

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is the bijective base-1 numeral system. It is the easiest numeral system to express normal numbers.

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Unary System

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any of the symbols or imagesutilized in an arrangement of numerical representation dependent on the old Roman system.

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Roman Numeral

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is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base.

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Decimal System

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Rounding means making a number easier but
keeping its value near what it was.

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Rounding off-number

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is an interpretation of scientific representation in which the exponent in expression of the form is
selected to always be divisible by 3.

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Engineering Notation

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is a method for communicating numbers that are too large or too small to be usefully written in decimal form.

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Scientific Notation

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Electronic computers were the limited possessions of scientists, engineers, and the military until 1951.

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First Generation Computers

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computers were created with transistors instead of vacuum tubes, these computers were faster, smaller, and more reliable than first-generation computers.

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Second Generation Computers

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They used Integrated Circuits (ICs). These ICs are popularly known as Chips (called semiconductors).

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Third Generation Computers

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is the perception that over the historical background of processing equipment, the quantity of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.

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Moore’s Law

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In the early 1970s, Dr. Ted Hoff, an Intel Corporation engineer, was given the task of designing an integrated circuit to power a digital watch.

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Microprocessor

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