Definition of Radix. Meaning of Radix. Synonyms of Radix

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Definition of Radix

Radix
Radix Ra"dix, n.; pl. Radices, E. Radixes. [L. radix, -icis, root. See Radish.] 1. (Philol.) A primitive, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon. 2. (Math.) (a) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration. (b) (Alg.) A finite expression, from which a series is derived. [R.] --Hutton. 3. (Bot.) The root of a plant.

Meaning of Radix from wikipedia

- In a positional numeral system, the radix (pl.: radices) or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers....
- In computer science, a radix tree (also radix trie or compact prefix tree or compressed trie) is a data structure that represents a space-optimized trie...
- radix sort is a non-comparative sorting algorithm. It avoids comparison by creating and distributing elements into buckets according to their radix....
- The Radix Tetrad is a group of four science fiction books by A. A. Attanasio. The first novel, the Nebula Award-nominated Radix, was published in 1981...
- Mixed radix numeral systems are non-standard positional numeral systems in which the numerical base varies from position to position. Such numerical representation...
- Look up radix or Radix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A radix, or base, is the number of unique digits, including zero, used to represent numbers...
- Radix Trading is an American proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago. It has additional offices in New York and Amsterdam. Radix Trading was...
- The radix entomolaris is an additional root in human's mandibular molar teeth. The human mandibular teeth have two roots usually. In rare cases, however...
- digit. OpenPGP, described in RFC 4880, describes Radix-64 encoding, also known as "ASCII armor". Radix-64 is identical to the "Base64" encoding described...
- calculators and is still used in modern computers. The generalized concept of the radix complement (as described below) is also valuable in number theory, such...