noun
definition
A root.
definition
A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
definition
The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.
Examples of radix in a Sentence
The output radix must be at least 2. The precision must be zero or greater.
Biginteger (String val, int radix) Translates the String representation of a BigInteger in the specified radix into a BigInteger.
The input radix controls the interpretation of numbers typed in; all numbers typed in use this radix.
In an appendix of forty-one pages he gives his third method, "local arithmetic," which is performed on a chess-board, and depends, in principle, on the expression of numbers in the scale of radix 2.
Ellis in a paper "on the potential radix as a means of calculating logarithms," printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.
For floating point types, digits is the number of radix digits in the mantissa.
The radix argument is interpreted in the same way as for int(), and may only be given when x is a string.
BigInteger (String val, int radix) Translates the String representation of a BigInteger in the specified radix into a BigInteger.
He uses "radicatum" for power (for root, power, exponent, his words are radix, radicatum, index).
It was first formally proposed as an independent method, with great improvements, by Robert Flower in The Radix, a new way of making Logarithms, which was published in 1771; and Leonelli, in his Supplement logarithmique (1802-1803), already noticed, referred to Flower and reproduced some of his tables.
For example, consider the radix character, the symbol used to separate the integer portion of a number from the fractional portion.
Octal and hex numbers may be specified as in C. The second argument specifies the radix for the result; the default is 10.