Using base-10 ( the familiar decimal notation ) as an example, the number 152853. 5047, which has ten decimal digits of precision, is represented as the significand 1528535047 together with an exponent of 5 ( if the implied position of the radix point is after the first most significant digit, here 1 ).

By performing the calculation above in the familiar decimal system we see why 112 in octal is equal to 64 + 8 + 2

Areas are identified by 32-bit numbers, expressed either simply in decimal, or often in octet-based dot-decimal notation, familiar from IPv4 address notation.

In 1858, Connell was appointed Postmaster General of the colony, at a time when increasing trade with the United States was forcing the British colonies to reconsider their currencies and institute a decimal system that would be more familiar to their American neighbors.

It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey ( familiar as the inventor of the Dewey decimal system ).

This term is often used to refer specifically to French Revolutionary Time, which divides the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds, as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds.

Examples of ideograms include wayfinding signs, such as in airports and other environments where many people may not be familiar with the language of the place they are in, as well as Arabic numerals and formal languages ( mathematical notation, logic, UML ), which are used worldwide regardless of how they are pronounced in different languages.

Gosling aimed to implement a virtual machine and a language that had a familiar C / C ++ style of notation.

The operators who did find it, including William " Bill " Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation " First actual case of bug being found.

Attempting to write using the familiar superscript notation gives a power tower.

This may be problematic if the author assumes the reader is already familiar with the notation in use.

For this reason, no binding orthographical standard for writing modern Alemannic emerged, and orthographies in use usually compromise between a precise phonological notation, and proximity to the familiar Standard German orthography ( in particular for loanwords ).

The ancient Chinese defined, by mathematical means, a gamut or series of Shi Er Lü ( called the 十二律 12 lü ) from which various sets of five or seven frequencies were selected to make the sort of " do re mi " major scale familiar to those who have been formed with the Western Standard notation.

Literacy is taught by learning musical notation and becoming familiar with forms of music like rondo and ABA.

Kuchi shōga notation is written in katakana, a syllabary familiar to all literate Japanese language speakers.

The early Western Go players found the method of kifu inconvenient, probably because as chess players they were more familiar with algebraic notation, and because as new players they found it difficult to locate moves.

In the more familiar vector calculus notation, the equations are:

Symptoms of receptive amusia, sometimes referred to as " musical deafness ", include the inability to recognize familiar melodies, the loss of ability to read musical notation, and the inability to detect wrong or out-of tune notes.

We are familiar with this system ( or if we're not, we can see mensural notation ), which at this point recognized the double-long, long, breve, and semi-breve as the units of note value, related to one another by triple grouping ; the double was always worth two longs, but a long could be perfect ( and therefore worth three breves ) or imperfect ( and worth only two ), depending on the exact sequence of notes.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Their commitments are, for the most part, couched in a familiar idiom.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

Mr. Barcus spoke on the subject of scholarships for Juniors -- with which he is very familiar.

Electronics has been applied to medicine for many years in the form of such familiar equipment as the x-ray machine, the electrocardiograph, and the diathermy machine.

Among the more familiar plans for dual-channel advancement is that of General Electric.

It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.

Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent.

So much for the tiresome facts, as familiar to you, I'm sure, as to the constables and state troopers who followed in your wake.

When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream, we have an instance of deja vue, except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar.

When I pressed for a purely religious definition, I encountered the familiar blend of liberal piety, interfaith good will, and a small residue of ethnic loyalty.

Although science has given us more effective materials, preparations from anise, castorbean, colchicum, nux vomica, mustard, fennel, and stramonium are familiar to many for the relief of human ailments.

Music lovers who are not familiar with this literature may hear an excellent example, played for RCA by Emil Gilels.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

How fully in correspondence with such an environment the work would be, as apologia for the Church against the Synagogue's attempts to influence Roman policy to its harm, must be clear to all familiar with the strength of Judaism in Asia ( cf.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

A full catalogue of the library available to Bede in the monastery cannot be reconstructed, but it is possible to tell, for example, that Bede was very familiar with the works of Virgil.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.