. A number system is a system which represents different numbers in different ways.
A number system is a set of symbols or numerals.
There are many types of number systrm. All the number systems have different bases.
Base denotes the number of symbols in the number system.
There are six main types of number system:
- Unary Number System
- Quinary Number System
- Binary Number System
- Decimal Number System
- Octal Number System
- Hexadecimal Number System
Unary Number System : It is the simplest numeral system to represents natural numbers.
Quinary Number System: In this system, numbers are represented with base 5 and it has 5 number- symbols ( 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ).
Binary Number System: In this system, numbers arre represented with base 2 and it has 2 number- symbols ( 0 and 1).
Decimal Number System: It is the most commonly used number system. in this system numbers are represented with base 10 and it has 10 number- symbols ( 0, 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Octall Number System: In thi system, numbers are represented with base 8 and it has 8 number- symbols (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
Hexadecimal Number System: In this system numbers are represented with base 16 and the numbers are first represented from 0 to 9 then the numbers are represented using the alphabet from A to F.
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